The Card

October. 28,1952      NR
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.

Alec Guinness as  Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
Glynis Johns as  Ruth Earp
Valerie Hobson as  Countess of Chell
Petula Clark as  Nellie Cotterill
Edward Chapman as  Mr. Duncalf
George Devine as  Mr. Calvert
Joan Hickson as  Mrs. Codleyn
Frank Pettingell as  Police Superintendent
Gibb McLaughlin as  Emery
Peter Copley as  P. Shillitoe (uncredited)

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