Cardboard Cavalier

5.7

96 minutes

3/31/1949

Overview

A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.

Cast List

Margaret Lockwood
as Nell Gwynne
Jerry Desmonde
as Col. Lovelace
Jack McNaughton
as Uriah Group
Brian Worth
as Tom Pride
Edmund Willard
as Oliver Cromwell
Mary Clare
as Milady Doverhouse
Alfie Dean
as Murdercasket
Anthony Hulme
as Charles II
Miles Malleson
as Judge Gorebucket
Irene Handl
as Lady Agnes
Joan Young
as Maggie
Claude Hulbert
as Sylvester Clutterbuck
Michael Brennan
as Brother Barebones
Peter Bull
as Mosspot
Vincent Holman
as Lord Doverhouse
John Salew
as Smug
Diana Hope
as Lady Dolly
June Devon
as Maria
Laurence Baskcomb
as Lord Bynge
Anne Holland
as Lady Bynge
Anne Valery
as Hope
Valerie Wynne
as Dorothy
Bruce Walker
as Lovelace's Servant
Charles Paton
as Mine Host
Walter Horsbrugh
as Sir Seymour Simon
Ernest Metcalfe
as Potman
Richard Dunn
as Usher
Francis de Wolff
as Soldier
Hector MacGregor
as Tower Soldier
Wensley Pithey
as Jailer
Alan Adair
as Courtier
Edie Martin
as Argumentative Old Woman (uncredited)
Patrick Troughton
as Executed Man (uncredited)
Sid Field
as Sidcup Buttermeadow