Warning to Wantons

Warning to Wantons
Directed byDonald Wilson
Written byJames Laver
Donald Wilson
Based onnovel A Warning to Wantons by Mary Mitchell
StarringHarold Warrender
Anne Vernon
David Tomlinson
CinematographyGeorge Stretton
Edited byFrederick Wilson
Sidney Hayers
Music byHans May
Production
company
Aquila Film
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors (UK)
Release dates
  • 4 January 1949 (1949-01-04) (London, England)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£125,000[1]

Warning to Wantons is a 1949 British romantic comedy film directed by Donald Wilson and starring Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon and David Tomlinson.[2]

The screenplay, written by art historian James Laver and the director, was based upon Mary Mitchell's 1934 novel A Warning to Wantons, subtitled 'A fantastic romance - setting forth the not undeserved but awful fate which befell a minx'.[3]

The film was one of the four of David Rawnsley's films that used his "independent frame" technique, a form of back projection.

  1. ^ "First of the 'prefabs'". Daily Mail. 5 January 1949. p. 4.
  2. ^ BFI.org
  3. ^ Mary Mitchell (1934). A Warning to Wantons. London: William Heinemann Ltd.