2 Movies Starring David Kossoff

A Kid for Two Farthings

A Kid for Two Farthings

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-08-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (592 Reviews)

Director:

Carol Reed

Cast:

Writer:

Wolf Mankowitz (book)

Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.

The Bespoke Overcoat

The Bespoke Overcoat

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-11-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

36 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (184 Reviews)

Director:

Jack Clayton

Cast:

Writer:

Nikolai Gogol (story)

Wolf Mankowitz (play)

Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.

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