Nov 29th  
The Card**        
(GB 1952)  

In the 19th century industrial Potteries, a plucky young man makes his way up the social ladder.
Enjoyable and quite easy going Ealing-style social comedy, unevenly adapted but with the the same zestful approach to the films of David Lean, and similar also in tone to the later Hobson's Choice.  

Written by: Eric Ambler, from the novel by Arnold Bennett.
Producer: John Bryan.
Director: Ronald Neame.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark, Edward Chapman, Harold Goodwin, Wilfrid Hyde-White.
Photography: Oswald Morris.
Music: William Alwyn.

+ the Guinness character as a young boy is played by his 11-year old son Matthew

Preceded by:

Tom and Jerry in
The Mouse Comes to Dinner*
(US 1945. 7m.; d: William Hannah, Joseph Barbera; p: Fred Quimby.)