This is shown on TCM sometimes and well worth seeing .
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The only thing I think is that TCM doesn't show the first ten minutes of the original movie (I think). I conclude this because judging from the end of the movie Sally had some conflic with her family that seems to have been left out of the original version. It would be nice if TCM can get the complete original version and show it to us. It would make it even more interesting.
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I just noticed in the summary that in UK it was released at 95 min and in the USA at 84 min. I believe that it is mostly the first part of the movie that are deleted as discussed above where family conflicts were omitted in the USA version. Hopefully, TCM will show it again and show the UK version of this great movie.
Maybe if the longer version is not available maybe TCM could give us a narative of what has happened in those ten lost minutes like they have done in some of their silent movies where they have done a terrific job.
shareSix years late, I'm afraid, but I watched the film only yesterday. If you haven't seen the first ten minutes, you've missed very little. It starts with two gents watching out for enemy bomber planes and talking literature, and there's several irrelevant, tedious minutes of Cyril Fletcher's comedy turn in a swish nightclub. In between the two gents spot someone flashing a torch, and we switch to an apartment where it appears to be Anna Neagle with the torch; she gets away just as the police arrive.
Then she turns up at the up-market nightclub with a wimpy looking guy, and it's obvious from the reactions of other guests that she's unpopular. Then, oh dear, Fletcher begins a second comedy act, but during it we get to see that Richard Greene is showing an interest in her.
Somewhere in between all this, we see Neagle's parents and younger sister at breakfast, expressing concern about Neagle's behaviour. By now, we've grasped that she was on good terms with the Nazi hierarchy before the war and still appears to favour their cause.
The rest of the film was OKish, though I did wonder at the cheerfulness of the guy the Nazis took off the boat in mistake for Greene.
Marlburian
In between the two gents spot someone flashing a torch, and we switch to an apartment where it appears to be Anna Neagle with the torch; she gets away just as the police arrive.
I did wonder at the cheerfulness of the guy the Nazis took off the boat in mistake for Greene.
Well my thanks to you is about 2 1/2 years late Marlburian. Good useful information.
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