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The Good Beginning


Date: 1953
Type: Drama
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Gilbert Gunn
Producer: Robert Hall

Comment/Synopsis

A newly married couple agree not to buy anything on credit but when he (John Fraser) gets a promotion and bonus he buys his wife (Eileen Moore)a fur coat on credit. She is jealous of their friends who have furs and car on credit. He does not tell his wife it was bought on credit and gets himself into trouble when he cannot make the repayments and tries betting on horses and borrowing from the company. This is a low key British film showing the dangers of credit in the 1950's but also the benefits to being honest in a marriage.

Actors


John Fraser
Peter ReynoldsPeter Reynolds
Eileen MooreEileen Moore
Lana MorrisLana Morris
Humphrey Lestocq
Eddie Vitch
Hugh Pryse
Robert Raglan
Anne Stephens
Victor Maddern
Peter JonesPeter Jones
Virginia Clay
David KossoffDavid Kossoff
Barbara Cavan
Rosemary Whitfield

Oscars

None
Production
Associated British Picture Corporation