Half a Sixpence Movie Review 1967

Former musician Sidney, who earlier directed "Showboat" and "Kiss Me Kate," shows a bit less verve in this production. Based on H.G. Wells' 1905 novel, "Kipps," it sports much of the original cast from its Broadway incarnation. Edwardian orphan Steele, a cloth-dealer-in-training, comes into a large sum of money and proceeds to lose it with great dispatch. Somewhere along the way he loses his girlfriend, too, but she takes him back because musicals end happily.

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 148 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Musicals, Comedy Drama, Satire & Parody, Books to Film: H.G. Wells

Screenplay

Beverley Cross

Cast

Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Penelope Horner, Cyril Ritchard, Grover Dale

Cinematography

Geoffrey Unsworth

Director

George Sidney

Producer

Charles H. Schneer, Paramount Pictures