The Card

The Card

The Card

7.0/ 10

TMDB Rating

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1952

Release Year

85 min

Runtime

Comedy

Overview

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.

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Keywords

bankrupt

ambition

opportunist

rags to riches

business idea

opportunity

self made man

business minded

successful

self-determination

charming man

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Cast

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns

Ruth Earp

Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson

Countess of Chell

Petula Clark

Petula Clark

Nellie Cotterill

Edward Chapman

Edward Chapman

Mr. Duncalf

Veronica Turleigh

Mrs. Machin

George Devine

George Devine

Mr. Calvert

Joan Hickson

Joan Hickson

Mrs. Codleyn

Frank Pettingell

Frank Pettingell

Police Superintendent

Gibb McLaughlin

Gibb McLaughlin

Emery

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7.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

September 11, 2022

7

7/10

Ronald Name has done quite a good job turning Arnold Bennett's amiable rags-to-riches tale into a throughly watchable film. Alec Guinness ("Denry" - an amalgam of Edward and Henry) is the aspiring son of a lowly washerwoman (Veronica Turleigh). Determined to better his lot, he happens upon the walle…