Synopsis:
Rex Harrison stars in this stylish British drama that caused problems with U.S. censors, who forced the film to be trimmed due to what was considered graphically amoral and sexual content for its time. Harrison is Vivian Kenway, an unrepentant cad who embarks on a campaign of irresponsible behavior after being ejected from Oxford. Among his many sins are seducing Jill Duncan (Jean Kent), the wife of his best friend Sandy (Griffith Jones), marrying a rich Austrian Jew, Rikki Krausner (Lilli Palmer), for her money, and dallying with the secretary (Margaret Johnson) of his father, Colonel Kenway (Godfrey Tearle). The feckless Vivian’s actions cause no small amount of collateral damage to his loved ones, including the drunken death of his father and the attempted suicide of Rikki. Vivian ends up serving in World War II, however, where his non-heroic ultimate sacrifice may (or may not) redeem him. The Rake’s Progress (1945) was released in the U.S. under the title Notorious Gentleman.

~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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Language:English
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Synopsis:
On Christmas Eve of 1938, the widow landlord of the boarding house at 10 Dulcimer Street, Mrs Vizzard (Joyce Carey), allows manipulative elderly dance hall coat checker Connie Coke (Ivy St. Helier) to put off payment of her back rent until after the holiday. The landlord rents out her basement room to phony medium Henry Squales (Alastair Sim), who performs a seance at her occult club. The mousey cockney Fred Josser (Wylie Watson) is given a clock at his retirement celebration by his firm after forty years of service and his crabby wife (Fay Compton) groans at his foolish contentment. His pretty young daughter Doris (Susan Shaw) attracts garage mechanic Percy Boon (Richard Attenborough) who lives upstairs with his elderly widowed mother (Gladys Henson), but she’s not interested in him. Nevertheless she goes to Connie’s dance hall with Percy just to spite her embittered negative mum who can’t stand the boy. When the joint is raided by the police, she meets Policeman Bill (Andrew Crawford), who soon becomes her boyfriend.

1.91GB | 1h 51mn | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7346C5964124C64/London_Belongs_to_Me_(1948)_–_Sidney_Gilliat.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English (Muxed)

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