Rent The Magnet (1950)

A 1950 screenplay from the firm comic hand of Tibby Clarke and director Charles Frend. The comedy is based on a series of misplaced assumptions in which a boyhood toy is coveted, won, lost, auctioned and fought over. The small boy around which the plot centres is played by a young William Fox, who later as James Fox became well known for his noted roles in 'The Servant' and 'Performance'. Jokes about psychiatry and the Labour government give it a middle-class attitude unusual for Ealing, but frequently associated with the British cinema of the time.