Boris Karloff enters the world of Dickens again playing the lead role in this version of HG Wells novel. It’s reasonably well known but I’ve got to admit I’m not sure why. Mr Polly is a nerd who comes into money, buys a shop, marries a bitch and fakes his own suicide. Maybe you need to be English to get into it. Karloff handles the lead role well enough – he was a decent actor, just not exceptional the way he was in horror films. During the intermission, an announcer talks about Wells, basically saying his writing declined in later years as he got more serious – odd to hear a radio program having a go at him. Maybe they were offended by his socialism.
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