A satisfactory breeze through Dinah Craik's socially concerned 1856 bestseller spanning the years 1770-1825.
The music accompanying the opening credits is familiar from George King's penny-dreadfuls with Tod Slaughter; but minus Slaughter himself, presumably because the unspeakable Lord Luxmore the elder wasn't flamboyant enough.
In his absence the lead goes to John Warwick, flanked by old-timer D. J. Williams and new boy Ralph Michael as Phineas; the film's biggest surprise being the novel casting of a pretty young Muriel Pavlov as the latter as a child.
The music accompanying the opening credits is familiar from George King's penny-dreadfuls with Tod Slaughter; but minus Slaughter himself, presumably because the unspeakable Lord Luxmore the elder wasn't flamboyant enough.
In his absence the lead goes to John Warwick, flanked by old-timer D. J. Williams and new boy Ralph Michael as Phineas; the film's biggest surprise being the novel casting of a pretty young Muriel Pavlov as the latter as a child.