Warning to Wantons

Warning to Wantons

94 mins | Comedy, Romance | Jan. 4, 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

Warning to Wantons

94 mins | Comedy, Romance | Jan. 4, 1949

Warning to Wantons
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
Producers Aquila Productions
Original title Warning to Wantons
Directors Donald B. Wilson
Writers Mary Mitchell, James Laver, Donald B. Wilson

Cast

Harold Warrender

as Count Anton Kardak

Anne Vernon

as Renee de Vaillant

David Tomlinson

as Count Max Kardak

Sonia Holm

as Maria

Hugh Cross

as Pauli

Marie Burke

as Therese

Judy Kelly

as Mimi de Vaillant

Ellen Pollock

as Baroness de Jammes

André van Gyseghem

as Oblensky

Bruce Belfrage

as Archimandrite

Dennis Vance

as Franklin Budd

Jack Melford

as Maurice Lugard