--- title: 'A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)' type: 'film' director: 'Carol Reed' released: '1955-01-01' runtime_minutes: 96 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Fantasy' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-kid-for-two-farthings-1955' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048250/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) 1955 · 96 min · Drama, Fantasy · United Kingdom ## Synopsis A Kid For Two Farthings is a 1955 British comedy-drama film directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was adapted by Wolf Mankowitz from his 1953 novel of the same name. The title is a reference to the traditional Passover song, "Chad Gadya", which begins "One little goat which my father bought for two zuzim". At the end of the film, Mr. Kandinsky softly sings fragments of an English translation of the song. ## Credits - **Director:** [Carol Reed](https://cinepixo.com/people/carol-reed) - **Producer:** [Carol Reed](https://cinepixo.com/people/carol-reed) - **Screenplay:** [Wolf Mankowitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolf-mankowitz) - **Original Music Composer:** [Benjamin Frankel](https://cinepixo.com/people/benjamin-frankel) - **Director of Photography:** [Edward Scaife](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-scaife) - **Editor:** [Bert Bates](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-bates) ## Cast - [Harry Baird](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-baird) - [Spike Milligan](https://cinepixo.com/people/spike-milligan) - [Danny Green](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-green) - [Celia Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/celia-johnson) - [Barbara Windsor](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-windsor) - [Joe Robinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-robinson) - [David Kossoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-kossoff) - [Brenda De Banzie](https://cinepixo.com/people/brenda-de-banzie) - [Lou Jacobi](https://cinepixo.com/people/lou-jacobi) - [Primo Carnera](https://cinepixo.com/people/primo-carnera) - [Alfie Bass](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfie-bass) - [Diana Dors](https://cinepixo.com/people/diana-dors) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-kid-for-two-farthings-1955 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3203032); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.