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Bookmark this pageA Kid for Two Farthings (1954)
Director: Carol Reed
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Before he plunged headlong into 'international' film-making (never to be seen again), Carol Reed took this fanciful Wolf Mankowitz screenplay and tried to re-imagine Petticoat Lane in the poetic realist vein of Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert. A young boy (Ashmore) mistakes a one-horned goat for a miraculous unicorn, and eagerly anticipates good fortune for his friends about the neighbourhood. A whimsical film, it may have seemed horribly patronising in the '50s; but from today's perspective, an intriguing, even adventurous attempt to resurrect a national cinema that had clearly lost its legs.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Carol Reed
Producer: Carol Reed
Cast: Jonathan Ashmore, Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Sidney Tafler, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Brenda de Banzie, Joe Robinson, Primo Carnera, Lou Jacobi, Sidney James, Irene Handl full cast
Duration: 96 mins
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