Kipps (1941 film)

Kipps (1941 film)

Infobox Film
name = Kipps


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director = Carol Reed
producer = Edward Black
writer = H. G. Wells (novel)
Sidney Gilliat
Frank Launder (uncredited)
starring = Philip Frost
Michael Redgrave
Diana Wynyard
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released = June 28 1941
runtime = 111 minutes (UK)
country = UK
language = English
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amg_id = 1:27501
imdb_id = 0033790

"Kipps", also known as "The Remarkable Mr. Kipps", is a 1941 comedy film adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel of the same name. Michael Redgrave stars as a draper's assistant who inherits a large fortune.

Plot

The day before the fourteen-year-old Kipps leaves to begin a seven year apprenticeship in a draper's shop, he asks his friend's sister, Ann Pornick, to be his girl. She gladly agrees.

Kipps goes to work for Mr. Shalford (Lloyd Pearson). Years pass and Kipps grows up into an unremarkable young man. One day, he attends a free lecture on self improvement presented by Chester Coote (Max Adrian) and decides to take a course. Coote, disdaining Kipps' lower class origins, steers the young man away from the literature class he wants to take to a woodworking class taught by the aristocratic Helen Walshingham (Diana Wynyard). Kipps is soon smitten with his lovely teacher, but she is mindful of his social inferiority and ignores him.

One night, actor and playwright Chillerlow (Arthur Riscoe), riding a bicycle, collides with Kipps and rips his trousers. He takes Kipps back to his lodgings to repair his clothes. They get drunk together, while Chillerlow tells Kipps about his latest play, a comedy involving a beetle. By coincidence, one of Chillerlow's characters is also called Kipps, a name the writer got from a newspaper advertisement.

When Kipps shows up for work late, he is sacked for breaking one of Mr. Shalford's strict rules of conduct. Then, Chillerlow tells Kipps that the advertisement was about him. It turns out Kipps has inherited a large house and a fortune (£26,000) from a grandfather he had never met.

Chillerlow talks Kipps into investing £300 in his new play for a half share. At the bank, they run into Mr. Coote. Coote suggests Kipps employ new solicitor Ronnie Walshingham (Michael Wilding) to look after his fortune. When Kipps finds out the man is Helen's brother, he becomes interested.

Soon, Coote and the Walshinghams have maneuvered the naive Kipps into an engagement with Helen (though he needs no encouragement). Then, Kipps meets Ann, now a parlour maid, on her day off. His feelings for her resurface and he kisses her. Later, when he and the Walshinghams attend a party, Kipps is mortified to find the front door opened by Ann. During the gathering, Ann overhears the news of his engagement to Helen and rushes away. Kipps finds her and tells her he loves her. They sneak away to get married.

The newlyweds clash over Kipps' insistence on maintaining his lofty social position. Then, Kipps receives a request to go to Ronnie Walshingham's office. Dreading a breach-of-promise suit, Kipps is surprised to meet not Ronnie, but Helen. She has terrible news for him. Ronnie has lost all Kipps' money and fled. The good-natured man reassures Helen that he will not set the police on her brother.

Just when all seems blackest, Chillerlow shows up in the middle of the night and informs Kipps that his play is a great success, and Kipps has a half share in the profits. It is enough for Kipps to set up a bookstore and live comfortably with Ann and their baby son.

Cast

*Philip Frost as Kipps as a boy
*Michael Redgrave as Kipps as a man
*Diana Wynyard as Helen Walshingham
*Diana Calderwood as Ann Pornick as a girl
*Phyllis Calvert as Ann Pornick as a woman
*Arthur Riscoe as Chillerlow
*Max Adrian as Chester Coote
*Helen Haye as Mrs. Walshingham
*Betty Jardine as Doris
*Michael Wilding as Ronnie Walshingham
*Lloyd Pearson as Shalford
*Edward Rigby as Buggins, an older Shalford employee

External links

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