Wide Boy (1952) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Benny is a black marketeer who deals in stolen goods and is Molly’s boyfriend. After stealing Caroline’s wallet, he uses a letter inside it to blackmail Mannering, escalating his demands and buying a...
Molly is a hairdresser and Benny’s girlfriend. Unaware that he stole Caroline’s wallet, she accepts a watch he buys with blackmail money. When Caroline visits the salon, Molly inadvertently helps her...
Caroline is Mannering’s mistress and the owner of the wallet Benny steals at the Flamingo. The wallet contains a letter from Mannering that Benny uses to blackmail him. Later, Caroline visits Molly’s...
Mannering is a famous surgeon having an affair with Caroline while his wife is dying. Worried that a scandal will jeopardize his bid for election to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, he pa...
Rocco is a crook Benny approaches after escaping the police, hoping to arrange a way out of the country. Rocco demands £400, so Benny turns to Molly and asks her to return the watch he had bought for...
George is the barman at the Flamingo, where Benny steals Caroline’s wallet. When Mannering and Caroline return to ask about the theft, George says he does not know Benny, who has never been to the bar...
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
After escaping his address, Benny goes to Rocco to try to get out of the country, but Rocco demands £400.
Caroline makes an appointment at the hairdressers where Molly works.
Caroline is present at the Flamingo, and George responds when she and Mannering return after discovering the wallet theft.
Mannering is one of the customers at the Flamingo, while George is the barman who answers questions about Benny's presence.
Mannering and Caroline are described as being together at the Flamingo, and his letter to her makes clear that he is having an affair with her.
The plot explicitly identifies Molly as Benny's girlfriend. They leave the Flamingo together, speak by telephone, and arrange a meeting at a railway b...
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
George tells Mannering and Caroline that he does not know Benny because Benny had never been to the bar before; he later identifies Benny from police...
Benny demands £200 and later £300 from Mannering in exchange for the letter concerning Mannering's affair.
Benny notices Caroline's handbag and steals her wallet while she is at the Flamingo.
A black marketeer's theft becomes blackmail, murder, and a desperate flight that ends at a railway bridge.
Directed by Ken Hughes
Wide Boy (1952) · 6.9/10 · crime, drama
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