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A Kid For Two Farthings is a 1955 British comedy-drama film directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was adapted by Wolf Mankowitz from his 1953 novel of the same name. The title is a reference to the traditional Passover song, "Chad Gadya", which begins "One little goat which my father bought for two zuzim ". [2]
A Kid for Two Farthings: Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn.
Joe (Jonathan Ashmore) is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna (Celia Johnson), in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr....
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Set against a rich evocation of postwar London’s East End Jewish quarter, Carol Reed’s touchingly bittersweet Technicolor fable concerns a young boy (Jonathan Ashmore) who comes into possession of a curiously-horned goat he believes to be a unicorn with the power to grant wishes.
A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1953 novel by the British writer Wolf Mankowitz, based on the author's experiences of growing up within a Jewish community in London's East End .
Kid For Two Farthings, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Unicorn Roaming London's markets, convinced that a magic unicorn would solve his problems and those of his adult friends, Joe (Jonathan Ashmore) at last finds it, in and offers his savings to a vagrant (Joseph Tomelty), in Carol Reed's A Kid For Two Farthings, 1956.
A charmingly idiosyncratic fable, A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS stars Jonathan Ashmore as Joe, an imaginative young boy growing up in London's impoverished East End.
