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A draper's clerk moves into high society, but soon finds that money doesn't buy happiness.

Boisterous adaptation of HG Wells's Kipps, in which a youthful, orphaned and impoverished draper's assistant inherits a fortune and starts climbing the social ladder.

Musical comedy in which draper's clerk Arthur Kipps comes into an unexpected inheritance. Moving into high society, he temporarily forgets his former associates, but soon finds that money doesn't buy happiness.

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