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Forgotten Classic

posted 8 years ago by terryperring104
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I caught this on 'Talking Pictures last night-watched it for a few minutes, but I was ready to turn it off and watch the Voyager episodes I have queuing up after recording. But this movie got to me.... from the first few seconds of the zooming camerawork-I thought, hang on-this is more than just a little 'b' movie. Then after ten minutes I was hooked. The acting and dialogue were first class. The main actress, Yvonne Mitchell playing the doting wife is wonderful. Its difficult not to feel sorry for her-she plays it so masterfully. It feels unfair as she is certainly not frumpy or ugly (she was 42 at the time but looked 32).
I had to stay up to the last second of this wonderful old English film. There was great support too, in the shape of Sylvia Syms and Anthony Quayle. Robin Ray is good as the young son too.

9/10

[–] smoke0 8 years ago

I was hooked also, and this is normally not my kind of film. The theme is timeless and the movie is so well done, it's more realistic and satisfying than the typical Lifetime-type movies of today, and should be on a best list.

Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.

[–] copeland_399 7 years ago

Sorry but I, too, caught it on Talking Pictures last night and although it's a film from my youth the thing that let it down, in my opinion of course, is that in those days they had people with upper class accents playing at being lower class and Yvonne Mitchell sounded much too well bred to play that part. I thought she was supposed to come over as being more common and uneducated (the loud singing in the pub, for example) but she just sounded too "posh" for the part.

It was just one of those things in those days. Actors and Actresses all spoke with a plum in their mouths and had to act at being cockney and it was never very convincing.