Warning to Wantons

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{{Infobox film

| name = Warning to Wantons

| image = Warning_to_Wantons_(1949_film).jpg

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| director = Donald Wilson

| producer =

| writer = James Laver
Donald Wilson

| screenplay =

| based_on = novel A Warning to Wantons by Mary Mitchell

| starring = Harold Warrender
Anne Vernon
David Tomlinson

| narrator =

| music = Hans May

| cinematography = George Stretton

| editing = Frederick Wilson
Sidney Hayers

| studio = Aquila Film

| distributor = General Film Distributors {{small|(UK)}}

| released = {{Film date|df=y|1949|01|04|London, England}}

| runtime = 105 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =£125,000{{cite news|title= First of the 'prefabs'|date=January 5, 1949|page=4 |newspaper=Daily Mail}}

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Warning to Wantons is a 1949 British romantic comedy film directed by Donald Wilson and starring Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon and David Tomlinson.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090115022620/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57189 BFI.org]

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'.Mary Mitchell (1934). A Warning to Wantons. London: William Heinemann Ltd.

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