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16 de jun. de 2014 · Alfred Polly has a routine job as a gentlemen's outfitter in the small, provincial town of Fishbourne, a location widely agreed to be modelled on Sandgate in Kent, where Wells himself lived for ...
Production Company: Two Cities Films Release Date: 28 March 1949 (UK) Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1. Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free.
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Alfred Polly is a junior clerk at a gents' outfitters. He's addicted to reading and to indulging his imagination generally, and this doesn't endear him to his employers. Following a mishap, he is dismissed. His receives the news that his father has passed away, and at his funeral he meets a relative, Mrs Larkins, and her three daughters.
There are some very funny passages, particularly involving Mr Polly’s dreadful, cringeworthy family. But Mr Polly is not precisely a man of action, and although this is the whole point, it does tend to weigh down the film’s ability to get going. Half way through, suddenly, Mr Polly, and the film, receive a decided kick in the behind.
There's no real on-running narrative of note here, as the film follows John Mills as a perpetually dissastisfied bloke who eventually finds his vocation in life - as a ferryman. But only after he's rid the nearby village of town drunkard Finlay Currie. To that point it sees him disappointed by a flirtation with a schoolgirl (Sally Ann Howes), a ...
The History of Mr.Polly ★★½ 2007Victorian everyman Alfred Polly (Evans) finds himself desperately unhappy since he's stuck with a nagging wife (Duff) and a failing business. So he decides to take drastic action to transform himself from a downtrodden loser into a hero. Based on a novel by H.G. Wells. 93m/C DVD . GB Lee Evans, Anne-Marie Duff, Julie Graham, Richard Coyle, Roger Lloyd-Pack ...
