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Director
  
Cy Endfield

Music director
  
Mario Nascimbene

Duration
  

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Cy Endfield

Language
  
English

Child in the House movie poster

Release date
  
14 August 1956 (London) (UK)

Based on
  
a novel by Janet McNeill

Writer
  
Aubrey Danvers Walker (additional dialogue), Cy Endfield (screenplay), Janet McNeill (novel)

Cast
  
Phyllis Calvert
(Evelyn Acheson),
Eric Portman
(Henry Acheson),
Stanley Baker
(Stephen Lorimer),
Mandy Miller
(Elizabeth Lorimer)

Similar movies
  
Eric Portman and Phyllis Calvert appear in Child in the House and Men of Two Worlds

Child in the House is a 1956 British drama film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman and Stanley Baker. A girl struggles to cope with her uncaring relatives. It was based on the novel A Child in the House by Janet McNeill.

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Cast

  • Phyllis Calvert - Evelyn Acheson
  • Eric Portman - Henry Acheson
  • Stanley Baker - Stephen Lorimer
  • Mandy Miller - Elizabeth Lorimer
  • Dora Bryan - Cassie
  • Joan Hickson - Cook
  • Victor Maddern - Bert
  • Percy Herbert - Detective Sergeant Taylor
  • Joan Benham - Vera McNally
  • Martin Miller - Professor Topolski
  • Christopher Toyne - Peter McNally
  • Molly Urquhart - Mrs Parsons
  • Bruce Beeby - Constable Jennings
  • Peter Burton - Howard Forbes
  • Maggie Smith - Party guest (screen debut - uncredited)
  • Alfie Bass - Ticket collector

    • Critical reception

    TV Guide called the film a "calculated tearjerker"; while the Radio Times called it, "good for a tear or two, though Portman and Calvert are rather oddly cast."

    References

    Child in the House Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Child in the House IMDb Child in the House themoviedb.org


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