He's looking for the chair in which his late aunt hid her fortune. Florence Desmond plays his girlfriend. Script adapt . When a boy becomes convinced that his pet goat is a unicorn, miracles start to happen to the people of Petticoat Lane market. A great cast and Technicolor help keep it fresh but the sentiment dates it.
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Charming film with a special Oscar a-piece for Jon Whiteley and Vincent Winter. Here the star who should have known better is Pat O'Brien playing an alcoholic reporter who confesses to the murder of his editor in order to get money from the real killer to pay for his son's operation. And if that synopsis doesn't put you off then Tommy Steele's debut performance just might. Ealing comedy without the cosiness and sentimentality - this is black, sophisticated and witty. Alec Guinness plays eight members of a family bumped off by Dennis Price's black sheep in his rise to a dukedom.