Warning to Wantons

Warning to Wantons (1949)

Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her strict convent school for the heady pleasures of high society. Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother and launches herself into Society with one aim: to conquer the hearts of all the men she encounters. Setting her sights on Max, a bridegroom-to-be, her expert scheming and manipulative behaviour soon ensures that he falls under her spell... but his fiancee isn't giving up without a fight

Date of release
1949-01-04
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Donald B. Wilson

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

Warning to Wantons is a 1949 British romantic comedy film directed by Donald Wilson and starring Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon and David Tomlinson. The screenplay, written by art historian James Laver and the director, was based upon Mary Mitchell's 1934 novel A Warning to Wantons.

Production

It was the first of four films produced by Donald Wilson using prefabricated sets to keep costs down. Filming took six weeks. The film was one of the four of David Rawnsley's films that used his "independent frame" technique, a form of back projection.

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