A Kid for Two Farthings (film)
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60% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy, Drama, Family Screenplay Wolf Mankowitz Country United Kingdom | 6.8/10 IMDb Director Carol Reed Music director Benjamin Frankel Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 15 August 1955 Writer Wolf Mankowitz (book), Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay) Cast Celia Johnson (Joanna), Diana Dors (Sonia), David Kossoff (Avrom Kandinsky), Joe Robinson (Sam Heppner), Jonathan Ashmore (Joe), Brenda De Banzie (Lady Ruby)Similar movies Inside Out , Delicacy , Nico the Unicorn , Black Moon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A Kid For Two Farthings is a 1955 film, directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was adapted by Wolf Mankowitz from his own novel of the same name. The film presumably gets its name from an Aramaic song traditionally sung after the Passover Seder, Chad Gadya ("A Lone Kid"), in which a kid bought for two small coins, "zuzim" in the original, stands in for the Children of Israel.
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- A kid for two farthings 1955 no unicorns in london
- Plot
- Cast
- Reception
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A kid for two farthings 1955 no unicorns in london
Plot
In the busy wholesale-retail world of London's East End everyone, it seems, has unattainable dreams. Then a small boy - Joe - buys a unicorn, in fact a sickly little goat, with just one twisted horn in the middle of its forehead. This, he has been led to believe by a local tailor, Kandinsky, will bring everyone good fortune.
The film has a haunting last image, of Kandinsky carrying the tiny body of the "unicorn" to the graveyard, whilst passing in the opposite direction is a Torah-reading Rabbi pushing a horn gramophone, a character that appears in the background several times during the film.
Cast
Reception
A Kid for Two Farthings was nominated for a Golden Palm at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Critically, this was one of Carol Reed's least successful films.
The film was the 9th most popular movie at the British box office in 1955, after The Dam Busters, White Christmas, Doctor at Sea, The Colditz Story, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Above Us the Waves, One Good Turn, and Raising a Riot.
References
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