The Rake’s Progress

Year: 1945

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: Sidney Gilliat

Drama

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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