| The Card [1952] | ![The Card [1952]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GSGTX3GQL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark, Edward Chapman
Studio: ITV DVD
Category: Video
Buy New: £34.95
New (1) Used (2) from £5.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2090
Format: Black & White, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 87 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
EAN: 5014861309023
ASIN: B00004CIFR
Theatrical Release Date: 1957
Release Date: January 26, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: HAS BEEN MISFILED IN WAREHOUSE - NOT MANY NEW ONES ABOUT / NEW / UNSEALED
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Fun and entertaining to watch. August 24, 2008
Amusing and entertaining movie starring a surprisingly good-looking Alec Guinness as an enterprising and innovative young man whose business ventures never seem to fail - despite the avarice Ruth Earp (Glynis Johns) he appears to woo, but she is far busier social-climbing for ever much grander titles, and ends up falling for the dashing 'Lord'! (Wilfred Hyde-White)
Also stars Petula Clark, Valerie Hobson, Michael Hordern and Joan Hickson.
You can do anything you put your mind to August 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have seen the film a few times of television and it is always a delight to watch.
Alec Guinness gives a great performance in a perfect Arnold Bennett story. It should be watched by all the people who go on Dragons Den for its innovative business ideas.
Denry Machin born in humble circumstances to a washer woman through some mild forgery of his school results goes to a better school and becomes a solicitors clerk through a bit of luck.
He helps himself by inviting himself to the social ball of the town and in the meantime learns to dance and curry favour generally. He is declared a card by dancing with the Countess of Chell.
He advances himself after being sacked by he solicitor for the impertinence of the invites but spots the main chance by taking over some the solicitor's cast off rent collecting business. He turns this in to a money maker with a few other good ides and achieves his goal of becoming the youngest mayor of Bursley.
A real poor boy makes good story which is very inventive touching and funny.
Good entertainment. Can't watch the film too many times. Alec Guinness at his best with good supporting cast of Glynis Johns as the gold digger and Petula Clark as the love interest.
 A Lovely Little Film! October 28, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a gentle comedy about a modest working class chap (Alec Guinness) who uses his wits to rise up the social ladder and make a bit of money into the bargain. A good cast and a delightful story all make for first class entertainment. His innovative ideas to get rich are not bad either!
Llandudno looks great July 8, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Speaking to a friend working at the theatre he remembers the film The Card being filmed 54yrs ago.Sir Alec Guiness stayed in the Imperial Hotel and happily posed for photographs whilst walking to the promenard to do the filming.
The seaside town as you have now gathered for this very fifities film is The Queen of Welsh resorts Llandudno and a rather entertaining film it is too.
For Guiness fans this is a film worth watching and the reason i have given it a five star rating is because most of the film set is around the corner from where i live so its exciting seeing a film with familiar surroundings.
If you have seen Guiness playing PiP in David Copperfield this film has the same sort of atmosphere a typical film of that era.
The young Alec Guinness at his best June 13, 2001
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
Brilliant recreation of Arnold Bennett's comic novel of late 19th century Potteries life (Stoke-on-Trent etc) and the workers' seaside antics in North Wales - where many still go on vacation. Guinness plays Denry Machin - the cheeky, clever son of a washerwoman who finds love and fortune (not in that order) in a story full of adventure and warmth. Good supporting cast includes Glynis Johns and (a very young) Petula Clark. Like most of Bennett's Potteries novels it's partly biographical and partly unfulfilled dream.
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