A Kid For Two Farthings is a 1955 British comedy-drama film directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was adapted by Wolf Mankowitz from his 1953 novel of...
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A Kid for Two Farthings may refer to: A Kid for Two Farthings (novel) A Kid for Two Farthings (film) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1953 novel by the British writer Wolf Mankowitz, based on the author's experiences of growing up within a Jewish community...
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Barbara Archer (category British film actresses)
a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her appearance in the 1958 film Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. A Kid for Two Farthings...
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David Kossoff (category English male film actors)
Lovers (1954 – for which he won a British Academy Film Award as Most Promising Newcomer to Film), A Kid for Two Farthings (1955), his role as Morry in the...
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Harry Baird (actor) (category British male film actors)
the YMCA. He made his first film appearance in 1955 as a boxer called Jamaica in Carol Reed's A Kid for Two Farthings. A year later, he appeared in the...
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screenwriter. He is particularly known for three novels— Make Me an Offer (1952), A Kid for Two Farthings (1953) and My Old Man's a Dustman—and other plays, historical...
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Edward Malin (category English male film actors)
Pound Note (1954) - Clergyman at Belgrave Square (uncredited) A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) - Dog Man (uncredited) The Story of Esther Costello (1957)...
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Vera Day (category English film actresses)
Dance Little Lady (1954) The Crowded Day (1954) It's a Great Day (1955) A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) Fun at St. Fanny's (1955) Quatermass 2 (1957) Hell...
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Raising a Riot (1955) The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955) Richard III (1955) The Constant Husband (1955) Summertime (1955) A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)...
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Carol Reed (category English film producers)
Virginia Graham in The Spectator. While the fable A Kid for Two Farthings (1955), Reed's first colour film, set in the East End of London, has been claimed...
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Brenda de Banzie (category English film actresses)
– Jane Price As Long as They're Happy (1955) – Stella Bentley A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) – 'Lady' Ruby Doctor at Sea (1955) – Muriel Mallet The Man...
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known for her film parts in The Spider and the Fly (1949), Alice in Wonderland (1946) and Hobson's Choice (1954), The Ladykillers (1955), A Kid for Two Farthings...
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Make Me an Offer (novel) (category British novels adapted into films)
He followed it up with another success A Kid for Two Farthings in 1953. In 1954 it was made into the British film Make Me an Offer directed by Cyril Frankel...
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Kid Speed (1924) The Kid Stakes (1927) The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) The Kid from Texas: (1939 & 1950) A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) The Kid Who...
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East End life in A Kid for Two Farthings. Sid is a small-time Jewish businessman from London's East End always on the look out for a scheme that will...
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workers in a developed country. Shortly before the film's release, the Yorkshire coalfield where the film was set was brought to a standstill for two weeks...
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Joe Robinson (actor) (category English male film actors)
You Were Here in the West End of London. He made his film debut in 1955's A Kid for Two Farthings, in which he wrestled Primo Carnera. Other big-screen...
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Danny Green (actor) (category English male film actors)
Laughing Anne (1953) - Nicholas A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) - Bully Bason The Ladykillers (1955) - One-Round Jumping for Joy (1956) - Plug Ugly Assignment...
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Edward Scaife (category Film people from London)
Inspector Calls 1954: Twist of Fate (1954 film) (U.S. ' Beautiful Stranger ') 1955: A Kid for Two Farthings 1956: Smiley 1957: Night of the Demon 1959:...
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Bert Bates (redirect from A.S. Bates)
Between (1953) Malaga (1954) The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955) A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) The Deep Blue Sea (1955) Anastasia (1956) Legend of the...
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Celia Johnson (category English film actresses)
actress, whose career included stage, television and film. She is especially known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944)...
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Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. It is directed by Oliver Parker and set in 1944, after the...
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the film won eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. May 8 and July 1 – 1998 saw the release of two dueling science-fiction disaster films about...
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Nora Gordon (category English film actresses)
(uncredited) Police Dog (1955) - Mrs. Lewis A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) - Customer (uncredited) Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) - Mrs. Williams Sapphire...
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the film SLC Punk! (1998) and its sequel, Punk's Dead (2016). As a director, Goorjian achieved recognition for his first major independent film, Illusion...
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Alfie Bass (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) – Sailor on 1087 (uncredited) A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) – Alf the Bird Man (uncredited) Make Me an Offer (1955)...
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Ponyboy Curtis (category Teenage characters in film)
for what he truly is: a wide-eyed kid, burdened by familial and societal expectations, who longs for something more. In turn, he plays Ponyboy with a...
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Harold Goodwin (English actor) (category English male film actors)
Twigg The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) – Second Customs Officer A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) – Chick Man (uncredited) The Dam Busters (1955) – Wing Comdr...
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Clouds (1955) as The Gambler The Glass Cage (1955) as Tony Lewis A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) as Ice Berg John and Julie (1955) as Mr. Pritchett The Deep...
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