Kipps (1941)
(The Remarkable Mr. Kipps)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 112m
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Diana Wynyard
Synopsis:
A draper's assistant longs for a girl he cannot have because of his station, but an unforeseen inheritance seems to bring no lasting change in his fortunes.
Review:
H.G. Wells's novel of social class constraints in Edwardian England, bears interesting points in common with Forster's character of Leonard Bast in Howard's End. In it he demonstrates how hard it is to be happy if one strays outside one's societal comfort zone. Redgrave is an odd choice for the unschooled orphan Kipps (Mills might have been better), but handles it well anyway, and this is a fine milestone in Reed's developing career, ably adapted by Launder and Gilliat.
(The Remarkable Mr. Kipps)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 112m
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Diana Wynyard
Synopsis:
A draper's assistant longs for a girl he cannot have because of his station, but an unforeseen inheritance seems to bring no lasting change in his fortunes.
Review:
H.G. Wells's novel of social class constraints in Edwardian England, bears interesting points in common with Forster's character of Leonard Bast in Howard's End. In it he demonstrates how hard it is to be happy if one strays outside one's societal comfort zone. Redgrave is an odd choice for the unschooled orphan Kipps (Mills might have been better), but handles it well anyway, and this is a fine milestone in Reed's developing career, ably adapted by Launder and Gilliat.
(The Remarkable Mr. Kipps)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 112m
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Diana Wynyard
Synopsis:
A draper's assistant longs for a girl he cannot have because of his station, but an unforeseen inheritance seems to bring no lasting change in his fortunes.
Review:
H.G. Wells's novel of social class constraints in Edwardian England, bears interesting points in common with Forster's character of Leonard Bast in Howard's End. In it he demonstrates how hard it is to be happy if one strays outside one's societal comfort zone. Redgrave is an odd choice for the unschooled orphan Kipps (Mills might have been better), but handles it well anyway, and this is a fine milestone in Reed's developing career, ably adapted by Launder and Gilliat.