A Kid for Two Farthings is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel

A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)90 minComedy, Drama, FamilyRating 64/100

In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanna (Celia Johnson), who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours.

Cast: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Jonathan Ashmore, Brenda De Banzie, Primo Carnera

Director: Carol Reed