The film was directed by Carol Reed[1] and stars Michael Redgrave as a draper's assistant who inherits a large fortune.

The day before the fourteen-year-old Arthur "Artie" Kipps leaves to begin a seven-year apprenticeship, he asks his friend's sister, Ann Pornick, to be his girl.

One day, he attends a free lecture on self-improvement presented by Chester Coote and decides to take a course.

One night, actor and playwright Chitterlow rides his bicycle into Kipps and tears his trousers.

By coincidence, one of Chitterlow's characters is also called Kipps, a name the writer got from a newspaper advertisement.

When Kipps arrives late for work, he is sacked for breaking one of Mr. Shalford's strict rules for live-in employees.

Soon, Coote and the Walshinghams have manoeuvred the naive Kipps into an engagement with Helen, though he is uncomfortable at her attempts at his self-improvement.

An article in Variety determines, "Any effort to give impetus or sharpness to this late Victorian yarn isn’t discernible.

Impression sneaks through that Carol Reed wasn’t exactly comfortable in the director chore on this type of limp yarn...Michael Redgrave is believable as the hick; Phyllis Calvert as the peachy domestic; Diana Wynyard as the tony milady for whom the lower-case Kipps almost sells his heart".