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  2. The Flower and the Straw

The Flower and the Straw

1955
9m

Status

Released

Release

1955

Runtime

9m

Storyline

Based on Dickens' "Sketches by Boz" and George Cruikshank's etchings which illustrate the book. Verses of the "Broken-hearted Milkman" sung by James Watson, Ronald Johnson and Owen Swindale. The song "When the Moonlit Wave" by Christina Stephenson and Elizabeth Johnson. Raymond Townsend and Sylvia Budd speak the various Cockney characters.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
9m
Sep 5, 1955
Languages
English
Director
Nigel McIsaac

Top Cast

1 Cast Members

Joseph Macleod

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