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The Rake’s Progress (1945) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1945 · 100 mins · English
- Directed by
- Sidney Gilliat
- Starring
- Godfrey Tearle, Lilli Palmer, Margaret Johnston, Charles Victor, Rex Harrison, John Salew
Vivian Kenway, an aristocratic Englishman, drops out of Oxford and turns his charm into a way of life, pursuing endless seductions, betrayals and marriages of convenience with no remorse. Living as a rake, he revels in his dissipated existence until World War II offers a chance for a heroic death, forcing a confrontation with his reckless ways.
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