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Director:
Carol Reed
Writers:
Wolf Mankowitz (book)
Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
20 July 1955 (Japan) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport more
Plot:
In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
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A nice fantasy. more (9 total)

Cast

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Celia Johnson ... Joanna
Diana Dors ... Sonia
David Kossoff ... Avrom Kandinsky
Joe Robinson ... Sam Heppner
Jonathan Ashmore ... Joe
Brenda De Banzie ... 'Lady' Ruby
Primo Carnera ... Python Macklin
Lou Jacobi ... Blackie Isaacs
Irene Handl ... Mrs. Abramowitz
Danny Green ... Bully Bason
Sydney Tafler ... Madam Rita
Sid James ... Ice Berg (as Sidney James)
Vera Day ... Mimi
Daphne Anderson ... Dora
Joseph Tomelty ... Vagrant
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
96 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-8 | Sweden:15 | UK:U | USA:Approved (certificate number not listed)
Filming Locations:
Aldgate, London, England, UK more
Company:
London Film Productions more

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A nice fantasy., 5 July 2002
7/10
Author: Butch (aweiland) from Monterey, California

I thought Primo Carnera did a good job here. His English is very good and he finally has a chance to do some acting. Probably the only chance to see Carnera, in color, as a normal person, and not as some freak of nature playing some other freak of nature.

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