Kipps (1941)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Carol Reed

Writers:

Sidney Gilliat (screenplay)
H.G. Wells (novel)

Release Date:

28 June 1941 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Kipps the draper's apprentice falls in love with a girl above his station. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really wants... |

Plot Keywords:

Inheritance | Snobbery | Social Commentary | Maid | 1900s

Cast

Philip Frost	...	Kipps
Michael Redgrave	...	Kipps
Diana Wynyard	...	Helen Walshingham
Diana Calderwood	...	Ann Pornick as a girl
Phyllis Calvert	...	Ann Pornick
Arthur Riscoe	...	Chillerlow
Max Adrian	...	Chester Coote
Helen Haye	...	Mrs. Walshingham
Betty Jardine	...	Doris
Michael Wilding	...	Ronnie Walshingham
Lloyd Pearson	...	Shalford
Edward Rigby	...	Buggins
Mackenzie Ward	...	Pearce
Hermione Baddeley	...	Miss Mergle
Betty Ann Davies	...	Flo Bates

Also Known As:

The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (USA)

Runtime:

UK:111 min | USA:82 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:U

Filming Locations:

Gaumont-British Studios, Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Productions

Trivia:

First feature of Peter Graves.

Movie Connections:

Version of "Kipps" (1960)

A gorge tale, luv

Having read the book of Kipps I knew what happened which was lucky because at times it doesn't seem as likely to happen as in the book - what am I on about? The romance of course. Young Artie has a choice - snobbish Helen who won't let him be himself ("there ARE H's, you know") or dear Ann the maid who has been his friend since they were children, and the longer he takes to make up his mind, the more idiotic he makes himself look!

Briefly, Kipps is a young draper's assistant who comes into money the very day he leaves his job. He thinks that the money will solve all his problems, but how wrong he is! And suddenly everyone he meets is either in society or trying to impress, and he is almost forbidden from talking to his old friends. Ann the maid is the only real character in the entire story, the only one who likes just to be herself, in a nice simple house, with a nice homely lifestyle.

This was my 19th Phyllis Calvert film, and I must say I'm very impressed with her cockney accent! I'm hoping that another one might pop up somewhere in what I'm still to see, but I somehow doubt it.