The Card

1952 PG-13 1h 25m

7.0 / 10 42

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7.0/10

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A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.

Director Ronald Neame

Writers

Arnold Bennett Eric Ambler

Stars

Alec Guinness Glynis Johns Valerie Hobson

Alec Guinness

Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

Police Superintendent

Gibb McLaughlin

Emery

Peter Copley

P. Shillitoe (uncredited)

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Mark Daly

Lord Mayor (uncredited)

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Deidre Doyle

Widow Hullins (uncredited)

Henry Edwards

Mr. Cotterill (uncredited)

Lord at the Liverpool Dock

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Geronimo1967 11 Sep 2022

7/10

Ronald Name has done quite a good job turning Arnold Bennett's amiable rags-to-riches tale into a throughly watchable film. Alec Guinness ("Denry" - an amalgam of Edward and Henry) is the aspiring son of a lowly washerwoman (Veronica Turleigh). Determined to better his lot, he happens upon the wallet lost by local lawyer/bigwig "Duncalf" (Edward Chapman). Honesty always being the best (and expedie...