Rent A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
3.3 of 5 from 65 ratings
1h 36min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Carol Reed's whimsical 1950s comedy-drama. In a working-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe (Jonathan Ashmore), a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne (Celia Johnson), who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realise the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky (David Kossoff) the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. But can his dreams ever come true?
- Actors:
- Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Jonathan Ashmore, Brenda De Banzie, Primo Carnera, Lou Jacobi, Irene Handl, Danny Green, Sydney Tafler, Sidney James, Vera Day, Daphne Anderson, Joseph Tomelty, Harold Berens, Bart Allison, Barbara Archer, Harry Baird, Alfie Bass
- Directors:
- Carol Reed
- Producers:
- Carol Reed
- Writers:
- Wolf Mankowitz
- Studio:
- ITV
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Classics, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Sidney James, Introducing a British Film Family, The Third Man At 75, Top 10 British Actresses of the 1940s, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 19/08/2019
- Run Time:
- 96 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Sales Pitches: London Street Markets in Archive Film: archive films of Petticoat Lane and Tower Bridge Road market
- London After the War: the post-war period is evoked in archive films celebrating the city and its people
- On the Ropes: a strenuous selection of archive films about wrestling and boxing
- 'All in a Day's Work': Actress Vera Day recalls 'A Kid for Two Farthings' and her 1950's film career in a new interview
- Interview with Joe Robinson (2006, 17 mins, audio only): the actor recalls 'A Kid for Two Farthings 'in this archive interview recorded live on stage at BFI Southbank
- Image Gallery
