A great film,thoroughly enjoyed it. An excellent story line and a tightly woven plot. And not a bad actor among them. Although I'm an addict of old films I must confess that I hadn't seen or even heard of this little gem before. Ah...the days before electronic surveillance,when detectives had to get out there and do the leg work in order to put a case together. My late brother was a detective inspector back in the 60s/70s and was probably one of the last of that particular breed before computers came in to do the leg work for them. As opposed to fading into obscurity, a lot of the actors here went on to enjoy long and successful careers to a greater or lesser degree. Incidentally, Kenneth Griffith died about nine weeks ago, a fine actor. he was eighty four.
Roy Boutling was a great British movie maker.Nothing wasted, nothing overstated. Captured the era faithfully. Pity the uploader felt the need to have a huge advert hanging permanently on screen. BOO HISS.
Uploaded over a decade ago, back when the options for free DVD conversion software were more limited. This advertisement logo is not included because the person who uploaded the movie wanted it there, the software adds it automatically unless you pay for the premium version. Today we rarely see movies with that because it's cheap enough to buy the software license, and also most of the free apps don't add that huge permanent watermark that's so distracting.
I should have said it's easy to mistake the odd movies on here with the free software logos with the terrible channels that Do intentionally add their own distracting logos, I've seen one in particular that isn't satisfied with one in the corner but uses two of those and a third that's placed halfway to the left border from the center, talk about distracting and unwatchable smh 🙄 but it's a channel that had black and white era movies so some of you probably saw it too.
The same movie is on YT minus the ad. Hannah should delete this post and use a better one. Reposting bad stuff just adds to the enormous amount of bad 'stuff' on YT. You can't just rip the first thing you see, and if it's flawed like this one, skip it until you find a better one.
Than you for this terrific film . Great actors AND Battersea Power Station. Much appreciate the trouble you took to put this film up so we can enjoy these great British classics.
If you dont watch this movie you're a fool! This is an awesome movie with fantastic one liners.. !!! The one about "get on with the Revolution" is so funny . ..
What a great film! Fabulous example of popular media used as propaganda against the Godless heathen Communists.The squalor was pervasive in this film, playing a big role. Also swell scenes showing the power plants of the 1950s. Coal fired. The latest thing then. I worked in a coal fired power plant like that in Zion, Illinois. It was like time travel back to the 1950s with massive generators like that. The walls were made with chain link fence so as to better cope with a coal dust explosion. Like the "Maine" in Havana harbor. I like the pre-modern, pre "giant tin cans accused of being architecture" London. But then, I'm an old bastard. The logo was a pain in the eye, but my brain managed to not notice it after a while. I was seeing people I hadn't seen in decades but their faces rang a bell. I see "M" from double naught spy films was a filthy commie in this!Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple is in this.
I've travelled and lived all over Canada, except the far north, and I've never seen a coal fired power plant! I don't think there have ever been any here! There were 2 nuclear plants. Not many for a country that built and sold them! But as far as I know both have been turned off and decommissioned. Hydro power is very destructive too, but at least it causes less global warming. Too bad we can't take credit for knowing that when we built them!
the ad sucked but the movie was great. just had to ignore the ad and look right thru it. after a few minutes, you don't even notice it anymore. one thing's for sure though - i'll NEVER buy that ripper software or anything else from AIMERSOFT.
What a gem... Excellent... Thank you.. A lot of skilled work and effort by all went into this movie.. Great to see footage of London and inside Battersea Power Station too.. !
My god, it's just typical, isn't it? I finally find a very rare broadcast of the DVD Ripper For Mac logo, and some idiot has gone and stuck a really distracting movie behind it.
Absolutely gripping! I can't write any more about this film without parroting the praise from the other reviews. I, too, am glad I stumbled upon this movie! Thank you so much for posting!!
Started watching this, looked good, but when I realized the DVD Ripper logo wasn't going to disappear, I quit. Really bad idea to upload a movie like this.
Love these older movies....can't get enough of them. Better acting & plots, no vulgarity and time killing, never-ending car chases. Much better content that today's movies!
I fed up of these complaints from some viewers. Get a life. You are getting good movies for free someone has taken the time and effort.Dont like it turn it off. Habitual complainers.
Here I am an American sitting on the edge of the Pacific and I am once again very very grateful to the British nation for its creativity in making this marvelous film. I just happened upon it and am so fortunate that I did so. It to me captures the spirit of the British people - understated courage and fierce attention to detail May I say Rule Britannia!
Thanks from the bottom of the heart of Britain's living in what used to be called during the Second World War as Little America. East Anglia because of the high number of American military bases in our area. We enjoyed meeting and working alongside loads of Young American men and women who came over to help in our war effort. For which we will be eternally grateful. And we take great pride in looking after the memorial of those who sadly did not get to go home, including those who had no know graves and those who remain on British soil at Madingley in Cambridgeshire. We also have the pleasure of young Americans serving today at R.A.F. Mildenhall and Lakenheath. They are fine ambassadors for the U.S.A.
We have loads to be thankful to the British nation. These movies are valuable capsules of history. Teaching history would be a start. No country has a clean historic record. But rewriting history is a crime against humanity. Democracy and free speech has been long and hard earned. By the way I am not British.
I'm so embarrassed of our current state of affairs within Hollywood. We have lost so much talent that it created a vacuum. Technology will never replace art. Our universities are to blame and it will take a long time to replace.
Wonderful film , despite giant Aimersoft logo . The film was so good after a while I just didn't notice . Even stared Joan Hickson who played mum and who later played Miss Marple , my favourite actress in that role . Great acting .
Brilliant script of espionage filmed at Pinewood Studios. This is an English film of quality with some wonderful performers. Some well-known names in there as well. If only we could be treated to quality like this in this generation, but sadly we won't be. Entertaining indeed and highly recommended. Many thanks for posting. Much appreciated.
This is a truly marvellous movie that zips along like a firecracker, one of a series of neo-realist British police dramas in the early 1950s, using real London locations which today give a terrific insight into how the West End looked c.1951. The cast contains some of the great British characters performers of the period - Andre Morell (later star of Hammer Horrors) and Anthony Bushell as policemen, nervy Kenneth Griffith and sly Charles Lloyd Pack as Commie spys, Joan Hickson (later "Miss Marple") as a mum, Dora Bryan (who died only this month) as a silly woman obsessed with her kettle. The good guys are MI5, the baddies a never-directly mentioned band of Communist sabouteurs. Rousing music score, nice sets, the production written by the Boulting Brothers, one of their earliest efforts..
@@jeanhodgson8623 No! Joan Hickson is the definitive Marple. The Rutherford films - good fun though they are - showed no respect for Christie’s characters or narrative. They annoyed Agatha Christie who herself believed that Hickson would make a perfect Marple. The BBC Hickson series beautifully reflect and respect the stories as written. Also Hickson’s performance as Marple is hugely more subtle and skilled.
It’s interesting to see that hundreds of people who think a point that has already been made in countless comments needs to be posted by them yet again.
Are you kidding me? They leave the AD on for the whole movie? Good Luck getting any viewers stupid enough to watch this gross error in Advertising. Iam out at 1:00 in. BYE
I'm writing my undergrad dissertation on the representation of Communism and the Soviet Union in British Cold War Cinema and this is one of the films I desperately needed to see. Thank you so, so, so much you've made my day! :D
Yo! Sorry for not replying sooner, I didn't see the notification until now. Erm... rather than specific films I can direct you to an academic source that's been like my Bible. Tony Shaw's British Cinema and the Cold War. I'm studying "I'm All Right Jack" (1959) and "Conspirator" (1949) alongside this one. :)
Well said Alex, I'm alright Jack is one of the best movies ever made, it tells of the mad unions and employers and the movies is directly in the middle with subject, object and the percieved pain involved. Cheers.
This was a great film. I love the atmosphere of the old black and white films and recognising actors/actresses from their younger days. It is weird to watch someone run to a phone box without thinking just for a few seconds 'why doesn't he use his mobile'.
You are probably right. As an American I don't mind saying that. In the 30's,40's, and 50's we produced a lot of very professional actors and actresses that took pride in their work. They made clean, fun quality movies But comes along the 80's and it all changes. Trashy loud mouthed actors. Trashy movies, nudity, foul language, violence. Sad
The international Communist conspiracy has it in for British electric utilities (as do a lot of Brits I'd imagine). Really silly. I did like seeing Mary Morris, my favorite Number 2 from The Prisoner.
I was born in 1944 in Birmingham, England. We all had great respect for our American allies. During the food rationing years it was wonderful that the American GIs seemed to carry and endless supply of gum! Any gum chum? Funny thing is that I couldn't eat it now. My jaws couldn't cope!
British films remain the best, and always shall. You just cannot go wrong with a British film, atmosphere and quality of script and dialogue and acting.
@@467-k1m I would not watch a Russian film for millions of dollars! Nobody should! That evil empire needs to be boycotted and sanctioned for 100 years, or until they give up ALL the stolen lands, pay reparations to them all, and give up all their weapons, including all nukes, including every last shred of nuclear fuel and uraniam yellow cake, or anything else that can be dangerous. They are a horrible bunch of paranoid nutcases who can never be allowed the resources to steal or kill again.
I look at these 'old' films and remember how London used to look and how people used to talk and behave and I'm overwhelmed with nostalgia for a people and standards that I grew up with but that are no longer present . I know there were aspects that weren't perfect, but on the whole it seemed a better time. I miss it terribly.
It's a very tight and well moving movie. The characters are rich and well defined. It's fascinating to see London and how it look and acted soon after World War Two. Thank you for downloading the film. Keep up the great work.
It's a good film. A lot of tension, excitement and good dialogue. Also good sound and picture quality. Thanks for posting. (pity about the constant logo, but I forgot about it after a while).
Roy Boulting's sequel to the more famous Boulting Bros. Seven Days to Noon. Wonderful cast. Good quality recording, sound as clear as a bell. Advertising logo is a little annoying but still well worth watching.
Great movie-ruined by a big, honkin' logo. Very distracting. Like others who commented, I'll view the film elsewhere. I purchased the DVD from AmazonUK. As soon as possible I'll have it uploaded to RUclips so others can view it as it should be viewed-without the advertizing logo on the screen..
mary mareno I received the film today from the Amazon UK. It is really wonderful!! The quality fo the photography is incredible-and without the honkin' logo it is such a pleasure to watch.
joycemarie1212 Hi, I'm sorry I have been unsuccessful in finding someone who can upload this great film for me. I'll keep trying. I'm very happy to have it in my collection of great films.
Iv'e watched this movie many times over the years, and I can't but think how it correlates to what's happening tin today's world in 2022. Man's quest for power, no matter how many lives are lost, just to stay seated in "government." No, it's not a new idea, but it sure "hits close to home."
@@georgeeliot2012 - YOU NAILED IT!! AND SO ELOQUENTLY SAID!! Alas, as in "The Emperor Has NO Clothes" too few can see it, or are willing to admit it!! More's the pity!! I only hope our nation survives!! 💙💙
+watercloset99 He did not STEAL anything. The publisher allows FREE use of the software but places the logo on the output until you pay. There is usually no time limit on this FREE use. Got it?.
Really good movie! It truly makes one wonder how many MPs there are at this time with the same agenda! A scary thought but quite plausible. Thank you 🌹
The police - asking the shopkeeper if he had seen the deceased - = Yes.."He'd come in yesterday to pay his radio instalment"" ..Those words really hit me like a sledge hammer!! I remember, as a young girl living in the Eastern Suburbs in the 1950's, my mother, or father, had a small booklet with pages that they would fill out and take to the local Post Office..with money to pay for the ""radio instalment"!!! I always thought it horrible that we would have to pay for the pleasure of listening to the (rather antiquated) radio perched in a special spot in the kitchen!!! An amazing memory along with the horse drawn cart that the Milko had, and the Ice Man..filling up the Ice Chest..(he used to chip off a bit of ice for my sister and myself!!), Wow...The young people of today would never believe this!!! I think it is wonderful!!!
The Inspector is an actor named Redmond who has a very impressive amount of credits to his name, Redmond is Irish and so is the inspector he plays as the film reveals in a bit of dialogue
Bit of trivia. Laurence Naismith, Anthony Bushell and Kenneth Griffith reunited to act in 1957 "A Night To Remember". Morse code played a key role in both films, and Griffith once again was a telegrapher!
Always enjoyed Kenneth Griffith's distinctive acting. Underrated, to be sure. Night To Remember is awfully hard to watch, painfully so, as it is fact and not fiction. I find the musicians the most poignant of all.
If you want exploding heads, lots of T and A, and fake digital effects, watch today's movies. If you want a story line and decent acting, watch a good British film from the 50s. Thanks for posting this highly absorbing film!
@@briangilley5093 The old British ones were by far the best! It's not the accents that we care about. Lots of old and new British films have a lot of US accents in them. It's all of the production values combined that make the old British ones better than ALL other countries' films. It was the Brits who taught the Americans how to do it. Especially Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock, both of whom began in British silent films, and literally discovered on their own how to make a good movie, before moving to the US and literally teaching them how.
An excellent police/spy procedural thriller dealing with a communist attempt to take over the government of Britain using a secret army of 5th columnists. There's no real star but a host of the finest British/Irish character actors of the 1940s and 1950s. Considering it was made in 1951 it has a very intelligent screenplay and excellent performances with a special mention for Liam Redmond. Well worth a viewing.
The Communist take over began in 1926 after Stalin murdered his way to the top of the Soviet Union. They hit this country as well [The Rosenbergs were NKVD agents]
rather see the logos and enjoy the great movie, than not get to see this most enjoyed movie! Hannah, thank you for time and effort for my being able to enjoy this movie. So sorry you have to hear from folks are jerks! tell I said it, from los angeles , california
Great movie! Thanks so much for uploading it. I didn't think the logo was too bad. I was able to ignore it without a problem. In other videos, they try to get around copyright issues by speeding up or slowing down the tape, or by cutting off part of the picture. This was far better than those practices.
For those who insist on telling the rest of us NOT to complain... there are legit reasons why we are annoyed. The logo -thing is so damned (insert expletive of choice) big. Plenty of other YT channels have a smaller logo, bottom RH or LH side. Take a huge hint and try being subtle with your commercial advertising for a dodgy DVD ripper for MAC.
Quite a line-up of post war stalwarts of British film and TV. The giant logo was irritating...but not so much as the antiquities "experts" thinking the Etruscans were in ancient Greece rather than Italy.
Very Well-Done!!! I suspect that if We we’re All aware of how closeTyranny & Destruction are to Us at all-times, We would be paralyzed with fear. I Thank & Praise-God for actively protecting and defending Us at all-times!!!
6 years after end of ww2 and the idea of a power hungry individual is not forgotten in the UK. Pinewood / HMG propaganda but well executed. great cast, script and locations. Logo not noticed after couple of minutes. thanks for upload Hannah Clulow
Once again, the best. There is nothing to compare with an British Movie. Thank you Hannah Clulow, for sharing; too, your marvelous Mum for sharing with her students. The logo, initially distracting, the acting, plot etc., was so captivating, that the logo for myself, disappeared into oblivion. A gem indeed!!!
What an incredible find. Despite the obvious propaganda it was excellent. What I found nostalgic at the end was the BBC home service explaining the power disruptions. The government and BBC I once respected no longer have my support. I loath looking at the Palace of Westminster as I do the famous BBC logo. To me they now represent the villains portrayed in this film.
It is all about the blame game. Someones life is not where they want it to be so they can blame themselves and mistakes they made or blame just plane bad luck. Then of course they can blame someone else, the Government. Anarchists, fascist, and per-revolution communists come to mind.
Yes, the logo is annoying, but what a good film. One curious thing: offhand, and without checking, Andre Morrell, played a similar role, with the same name in Seven Days to Noon.
These English films are so unique of their time. Please remember the quality of acting everyday lives in these films and making them interesting is quite a “feat” of extraordinary actors, never shall this be repeatedly again in our lifetimes. I thank the men and women and children for choosing this career to give me entertainment. God bless them !
Matthew 7:13-14 King James Version 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
A great film,thoroughly enjoyed it. An excellent story line and a tightly woven plot. And not a bad actor among them. Although I'm an addict of old films I must confess that I hadn't seen or even heard of this little gem before. Ah...the days before electronic surveillance,when detectives had to get out there and do the leg work in order to put a case together. My late brother was a detective inspector back in the 60s/70s and was probably one of the last of that particular breed before computers came in to do the leg work for them. As opposed to fading into obscurity, a lot of the actors here went on to enjoy long and successful careers to a greater or lesser degree. Incidentally, Kenneth Griffith died about nine weeks ago, a fine actor. he was eighty four.
Note Anthony Bushell's expression at 33.40, on finding himself next to Michael Ward in the Music Society audience.
Kenneth Griffith was in many great movies, almost always as a villian.
John 5:28
Revelation 21:3,4
WHY?
Absorbing, with great shots of London; I love the black & white; also nice to see Joan Hickson when she was young and not playing Miss Marple...
Roy Boutling was a great British movie maker.Nothing wasted, nothing overstated. Captured the era faithfully.
Pity the uploader felt the need to have a huge advert hanging permanently on screen. BOO HISS.
Uploaded over a decade ago, back when the options for free DVD conversion software were more limited. This advertisement logo is not included because the person who uploaded the movie wanted it there, the software adds it automatically unless you pay for the premium version. Today we rarely see movies with that because it's cheap enough to buy the software license, and also most of the free apps don't add that huge permanent watermark that's so distracting.
I should have said it's easy to mistake the odd movies on here with the free software logos with the terrible channels that Do intentionally add their own distracting logos, I've seen one in particular that isn't satisfied with one in the corner but uses two of those and a third that's placed halfway to the left border from the center, talk about distracting and unwatchable smh 🙄 but it's a channel that had black and white era movies so some of you probably saw it too.
The same movie is on YT minus the ad. Hannah should delete this post and use a better one. Reposting bad stuff just adds to the enormous amount of bad 'stuff' on YT. You can't just rip the first thing you see, and if it's flawed like this one, skip it until you find a better one.
@@rescuepetsrule6842. Blah blah...stfu and don't watch ffs.
Than you for this terrific film . Great actors AND Battersea Power Station. Much appreciate the trouble you took to put this film up so we can enjoy these great British classics.
Very enjoyable film. The theme and pace of the script made it for me. Thank you for uploading
If you dont watch this movie you're a fool! This is an awesome movie with fantastic one liners.. !!! The one about "get on with the Revolution" is so funny . ..
I loved when the guy said she was so -comfortable- comforting.
Pretty good movie, still relevant today
What logo? Great movie. Thanks.
I didn't even notice it after 5 minutes.
What a great film! Fabulous example of popular media used as propaganda against the Godless heathen Communists.The squalor was pervasive in this film, playing a big role.
Also swell scenes showing the power plants of the 1950s. Coal fired. The latest thing then. I worked in a coal fired power plant like that in Zion, Illinois. It was like time travel back to the 1950s with massive generators like that. The walls were made with chain link fence so as to better cope with a coal dust explosion. Like the "Maine" in Havana harbor.
I like the pre-modern, pre "giant tin cans accused of being architecture" London. But then, I'm an old bastard.
The logo was a pain in the eye, but my brain managed to not notice it after a while.
I was seeing people I hadn't seen in decades but their faces rang a bell. I see "M" from double naught spy films was a filthy commie in this!Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple is in this.
I've travelled and lived all over Canada, except the far north, and I've never seen a coal fired power plant! I don't think there have ever been any here!
There were 2 nuclear plants. Not many for a country that built and sold them! But as far as I know both have been turned off and decommissioned.
Hydro power is very destructive too, but at least it causes less global warming. Too bad we can't take credit for knowing that when we built them!
Same plot with a different flavour in U.S. elections ....
the ad sucked but the movie was great. just had to ignore the ad and look right thru it. after a few minutes, you don't even notice it anymore. one thing's for sure though - i'll NEVER buy that ripper software or anything else from AIMERSOFT.
What a gem... Excellent... Thank you.. A lot of skilled work and effort by all went into this movie.. Great to see footage of London and inside Battersea Power Station too.. !
Love these b&w British spy flicks way better than modern james bond hyped cgi.
My god, it's just typical, isn't it? I finally find a very rare broadcast of the DVD Ripper For Mac logo, and some idiot has gone and stuck a really distracting movie behind it.
why is the water mark on the screen?
I, watched the logo more than the movie.
Joan Hickson of Miss Marple fame
Absolutely gripping! I can't write any more about this film without parroting the praise from the other reviews. I, too, am glad I stumbled upon this movie! Thank you so much for posting!!
Started watching this, looked good, but when I realized the DVD Ripper logo wasn't going to disappear, I quit. Really bad idea to upload a movie like this.
We dont mind the logo
Me too; the logo was constant interference! Smh, sigh 😔
Wish they had paid for the ripping software
Love these older movies....can't get enough of them. Better acting & plots, no vulgarity and time killing, never-ending car chases. Much better content that today's movies!
I fed up of these complaints from some viewers. Get a life. You are getting good movies for free someone has taken the time and effort.Dont like it turn it off. Habitual complainers.
Sad brats
I love British Films. Their actors don't have to be handsome or a size 4, all they have to do is be good actors and actresses.
Susan Pound come on!! Size 4!
Susan Pound ! I’m American & I’ve said those exact words to my family and friends. British films and tv puts ours to shame, overall
@@monikamiliczka6104 I think she's talking in USA sizes.. I know that they have a size zero which is like a UK size 6.. (I think?)
I second your motion. Elegant English along with a good holsom movie.
@@DD-bz6qc so agreed
Here I am an American sitting on the edge of the Pacific and I am once again very very grateful to the British nation for its creativity in making this marvelous film. I just happened upon it and am so fortunate that I did so. It to me captures the spirit of the British people - understated courage and fierce attention to detail May I say Rule Britannia!
Rothschilds rule the U.S. through the power of banks.
I’m British and you make me feel good 🤍
Thanks from the bottom of the heart of Britain's living in what used to be called during the Second World War as Little America.
East Anglia because of the high number of American military bases in our area.
We enjoyed meeting and working alongside loads of Young American men and women who came over to help in our war effort.
For which we will be eternally grateful.
And we take great pride in looking after the memorial of those who sadly did not get to go home, including those who had no know graves and those who remain on British soil at Madingley in Cambridgeshire.
We also have the pleasure of young Americans serving today at R.A.F. Mildenhall and Lakenheath.
They are fine ambassadors for the U.S.A.
We have loads to be thankful to the British nation.
These movies are valuable capsules of history.
Teaching history would be a start.
No country has a clean historic record.
But rewriting history is a crime against humanity.
Democracy and free speech has been long and hard earned.
By the way I am not British.
I am finding these movies so great
I'm so embarrassed of our current state of affairs within Hollywood. We have lost so much talent that it created a vacuum. Technology will never replace art. Our universities are to blame and it will take a long time to replace.
It took 800 years the last time.
MAGAs on school boards and fascist governors are to blame. Florida for example
English moves are such a breath of fresh air.
Wonderful film , despite giant Aimersoft logo . The film was so good after a while I just didn't notice . Even stared Joan Hickson who played mum and who later played Miss Marple , my favourite actress in that role .
Great acting .
I thought that was her. Great actress.
Brilliant script of espionage filmed at Pinewood Studios. This is an English film of quality with some wonderful performers. Some well-known names in there as well. If only we could be treated to quality like this in this generation, but sadly we won't be. Entertaining indeed and highly recommended. Many thanks for posting. Much appreciated.
Maybe Guy Ritchie will do a remake.
Can you make the logo bigger, it's awesome, surely it would fit right across the screen.
The actors have proper English speaking
voices. What a joy to hear 😊.
I came here to watch the Aimersoft logo and that damn film got in the way.
Me too. Even took away the colour from my screen
Yeah... me too.
I put a strip of packaging tape over mine..Did not work either
bama boogiewoogie LMAO!!!!😂😂😂🤭
Lol!!!
Absolutely brilliant. Many, many thanks for posting such a gem!
What a gem, fast paced, good acting, great dialogue and lovely period location shots. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
If I hear the word "gem" to describe another movie I'll.....!
@@gailjarvis2592 'movie'? Are you American? We call them films.
They also seems the bad guys are like Progressives here in the USA. Just saying.
@@manfredwilliams3860 like the brown and yellow "films" on the teeth of many superior English people?
@@AB-kg6rk Better to have imperfect teeth rather than huge guts and tiny brains.
Stoopid and ignorant is the keeping of the logo throughout the movie.
This is a truly marvellous movie that zips along like a firecracker, one of a series of neo-realist British police dramas in the early 1950s, using real London locations which today give a terrific insight into how the West End looked c.1951. The cast contains some of the great British characters performers of the period - Andre Morell (later star of Hammer Horrors) and Anthony Bushell as policemen, nervy Kenneth Griffith and sly Charles Lloyd Pack as Commie spys, Joan Hickson (later "Miss Marple") as a mum, Dora Bryan (who died only this month) as a silly woman obsessed with her kettle. The good guys are MI5, the baddies a never-directly mentioned band of Communist sabouteurs. Rousing music score, nice sets, the production written by the Boulting Brothers, one of their earliest efforts..
I thought the Mum looked familiar. Thanks for tipping me off to Joan Hickson--one of the very best choices to portray Miss Marple.
The Boulting Brothers produced and f
The Boulting Brothers directed and produced great films .
Great film! I love how everything is so unemotional and matter of fact, even during the gun fight. Very British, what?
Even more appropriate movie today than in 1951.
Thank you so much for posting.
How true. FROM ACROSS THE POND .
Damn, we used to make good films. This is another gem I'd never heard of, many thanks for uploading.
Wonderful Art Deco interrior of Battersea Power Station before it was left to rot for twenty years.
Did anyone recognize Joan Hickson (Miss Jane Marple) as Mrs.Ellis. Don't come any better!!!!
Dandy Nichols too!
She was in tons of films x
And did you recognize the later boss from James Bond? "M" ?
Margaret Rutherford was the definitive Miss Marple. That other one doesn't even come close. Margaret made four classic Marple movies.
@@jeanhodgson8623 No! Joan Hickson is the definitive Marple. The Rutherford films - good fun though they are - showed no respect for Christie’s characters or narrative. They annoyed Agatha Christie who herself believed that Hickson would make a perfect Marple. The BBC Hickson series beautifully reflect and respect the stories as written. Also Hickson’s performance as Marple is hugely more subtle and skilled.
A relevant movie. "Wherever people have known the light, they don't tolerate the darkness for very long."
How often do you get a truly philosophical Command-Level Police Officer?
@@johncresswell-plant2913 doubt since the 50s.
@@johncresswell-plant2913 Whose hobby is Greek ceramics?
It’s interesting to see that hundreds of people who think a point that has already been made in countless comments needs to be posted by them yet again.
rarely seen British classic thank you for hosting
Are you kidding me? They leave the AD on for the whole movie? Good Luck getting any viewers stupid enough to watch this gross error in Advertising. Iam out at 1:00 in. BYE
Wow Joan Hicksen ,Dora Bryan,Jean Anderson,Dandy Nicols all huge tv stars later on
I searched for an alternative and found this movie on MK Powelson’s channel :-). No aggravating logo on screen
Thanks, was driving me nuts
I'm writing my undergrad dissertation on the representation of Communism and the Soviet Union in British Cold War Cinema and this is one of the films I desperately needed to see. Thank you so, so, so much you've made my day! :D
Saw your post, can you recommend other films on this theme from your dissertation research? Thanks....
Yo! Sorry for not replying sooner, I didn't see the notification until now.
Erm... rather than specific films I can direct you to an academic source that's been like my Bible. Tony Shaw's British Cinema and the Cold War. I'm studying "I'm All Right Jack" (1959) and "Conspirator" (1949) alongside this one. :)
Well said Alex, I'm alright Jack is one of the best movies ever made, it tells of the mad unions and employers and the movies is directly in the middle with subject, object and the percieved pain involved. Cheers.
You're writing a dissertation on a movie of fiction? How accurate is that going to be?
@@jimclark6256 Accurate as to perceptions?
This was a great film. I love the atmosphere of the old black and white films and recognising actors/actresses from their younger days. It is weird to watch someone run to a phone box without thinking just for a few seconds 'why doesn't he use his mobile'.
Exactly
British actors & actresses are the very best in the World Today - because the British Stage Training is the best in the World.
You are probably right. As an American I don't mind saying that. In the 30's,40's, and 50's we produced a lot of very professional actors and actresses that took pride in their work. They made clean, fun quality movies But comes along the 80's and it all changes. Trashy loud mouthed actors. Trashy movies, nudity, foul language, violence. Sad
Meghan Markle disagrees with you, and she made sure Harry does too.
The international Communist conspiracy has it in for British electric utilities (as do a lot of Brits I'd imagine). Really silly. I did like seeing Mary Morris, my favorite Number 2 from The Prisoner.
I was born in 1944 in Birmingham, England. We all had great respect for our American allies. During the food rationing years it was wonderful that the American GIs seemed to carry and endless supply of gum! Any gum chum? Funny thing is that I couldn't eat it now. My jaws couldn't cope!
Do you mean chum gum two in a pack
Quite forgot about the logo due to the fact that this was a most enjoyable film, thank you for posting.
Anyone remember when High Treason was a thing.
Definition redefined
SAY WHAT YOU WANT. IT'S UNWATCHABLE TO ME.
British films remain the best, and always shall. You just cannot go wrong with a British film, atmosphere and quality of script and dialogue and acting.
I guess there’s no end to the ARROGANCE!!!😅
dougaldouglas8842: You would find delight in almost all Russian films. Enjoy, & I hope you try some.
Sincerely, regards Sentebay in USA at 80 + y.o.
@@467-k1m I delight in the freedom that millions paid the price for, or have you forgotten?
Pura verdade.
@@467-k1m I would not watch a Russian film for millions of dollars! Nobody should! That evil empire needs to be boycotted and sanctioned for 100 years, or until they give up ALL the stolen lands, pay reparations to them all, and give up all their weapons, including all nukes, including every last shred of nuclear fuel and uraniam yellow cake, or anything else that can be dangerous. They are a horrible bunch of paranoid nutcases who can never be allowed the resources to steal or kill again.
I look at these 'old' films and remember how London used to look and how people used to talk and behave and I'm overwhelmed with nostalgia for a people and standards that I grew up with but that are no longer present . I know there were aspects that weren't perfect, but on the whole it seemed a better time. I miss it terribly.
It's a very tight and well moving movie. The characters are rich and well defined. It's fascinating to see London and how it look and acted soon after World War Two. Thank you for downloading the film. Keep up the great work.
It's a good film. A lot of tension, excitement and good dialogue. Also good sound and picture quality. Thanks for posting. (pity about the constant logo, but I forgot about it after a while).
Roy Boulting's sequel to the more famous Boulting Bros. Seven Days to Noon. Wonderful cast. Good quality recording, sound as clear as a bell. Advertising logo is a little annoying but still well worth watching.
I hope you don't get paid for the logo whenever someone clicks on your movie. I didn't even stay through the credits.
great flick,,,bye to amersoft
appreciated the movie - but NOT the ever-present logo !
No big deal. we have the film!
copyright!
@@mckavitt13 Exactly. I'm just thankful I got to watch it.
copyright protection
Great movie-ruined by a big, honkin' logo. Very distracting. Like others who commented, I'll view the film elsewhere.
I purchased the DVD from AmazonUK. As soon as possible I'll have it uploaded to RUclips so others can view it as it should be viewed-without the advertizing logo on the screen..
mary mareno
I received the film today from the Amazon UK. It is really wonderful!! The quality fo the photography is incredible-and without the honkin' logo it is such a pleasure to watch.
Thunderbolt Chastain I have searched without success for your upload. Please let me know whether you uploaded it yet. THANK YOU!
joycemarie1212 Hi, I'm sorry I have been unsuccessful in finding someone who can upload this great film for me. I'll keep trying. I'm very happy to have it in my collection of great films.
How kind of you to try to accommodate me. I'll look for a copy outside of RUclips as well. Thank you again!
joycemarie1212 I got my DVD through Amazon UK. Well, worth the money-absolute pure quality in every way.
I wasn't expecting much. Wow was I surprised. This is an excellent film from the writing, directing, location, design and acting.
Iv'e watched this movie many times over the years, and I can't but think how it correlates to what's happening tin today's world in 2022. Man's quest for power, no matter how many lives are lost, just to stay seated in "government." No, it's not a new idea, but it sure "hits close to home."
No, not “man’s” quest for power. One DingDon & his Crime Family Syndicate’s corrupt grip on power - that is what hits home.
@@georgeeliot2012 - YOU NAILED IT!! AND SO ELOQUENTLY SAID!! Alas, as in "The Emperor Has NO Clothes" too few can see it, or are willing to admit it!! More's the pity!! I only hope our nation survives!! 💙💙
Why do people slap their ugly logos on these films. You don't own the film.... All you do is ruin it.
+drednm
don't own it..........hell, he stole it. he's a damn thief.
if he stoled it so are you, you watched it.
+watercloset99 He did not STEAL anything. The publisher allows FREE use of the software but places the logo on the output until you pay. There is usually no time limit on this FREE use.
Got it?.
+Ben Sam Steady on there it's only an old movie.
This is a really great movie - from more than 70 years ago.
Thank you for uploading it.
Really good movie! It truly makes one wonder how many MPs there are at this time with the same agenda! A scary thought but quite plausible. Thank you 🌹
food processing plant explosions
The police - asking the shopkeeper if he had seen the deceased - = Yes.."He'd come in yesterday to pay his radio instalment"" ..Those words really hit me like a sledge hammer!! I remember, as a young girl living in the Eastern Suburbs in the 1950's, my mother, or father, had a small booklet with pages that they would fill out and take to the local Post Office..with money to pay for the ""radio instalment"!!! I always thought it horrible that we would have to pay for the pleasure of listening to the (rather antiquated) radio perched in a special spot in the kitchen!!! An amazing memory along with the horse drawn cart that the Milko had, and the Ice Man..filling up the Ice Chest..(he used to chip off a bit of ice for my sister and myself!!), Wow...The young people of today would never believe this!!! I think it is wonderful!!!
Thank you for the wonderful memories, Marilyn.
@@ivanppillay914 it’s a pleasure Ivan.. good days fir a child
@@marilynstevenson865 : Yes, indeed. Take care, Marilyn.
Should have said "wireless".
It was known as hire purchase. Basically pre-credit card -- you paid a deposit and then paid something off monthly, or weekly.
English men, like you and me.............HELLO, if you listen harder you might just find an Irish accent!
The Inspector is an actor named Redmond who has a very impressive amount of credits to his name, Redmond is Irish and so is the inspector he plays as the film reveals in a bit of dialogue
Absolutely brilliant film, great acting and storyline. Wish they still made films like this nowadays. 👍
High Treason Excellent superb on time, for those who've seen the light they won't tolerate the dark. Pray for democracy.
The logo was a drag but it was a well made film. Even the morse message he sent was real.
sync is way off
Bit of trivia. Laurence Naismith, Anthony Bushell and Kenneth Griffith reunited to act in 1957 "A Night To Remember". Morse code played a key role in both films, and Griffith once again was a telegrapher!
Always enjoyed Kenneth Griffith's distinctive acting. Underrated, to be sure. Night To Remember is awfully hard to watch, painfully so, as it is fact and not fiction. I find the musicians the most poignant of all.
If you want exploding heads, lots of T and A, and fake digital effects, watch today's movies. If you want a story line and decent acting, watch a good British film from the 50s. Thanks for posting this highly absorbing film!
Sure sure, but I don't know about the British films part. All I know is old movies period..
@@briangilley5093 The old British ones were by far the best! It's not the accents that we care about. Lots of old and new British films have a lot of US accents in them. It's all of the production values combined that make the old British ones better than ALL other countries' films.
It was the Brits who taught the Americans how to do it. Especially Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock, both of whom began in British silent films, and literally discovered on their own how to make a good movie, before moving to the US and literally teaching them how.
I was so enthralled by the film that after awhile I did not notice the logo. My father worked on the building of Battersea power station. Nice one!
An excellent police/spy procedural thriller dealing with a communist attempt to take over the government of Britain using a secret army of 5th columnists. There's no real star but a host of the finest British/Irish character actors of the 1940s and 1950s. Considering it was made in 1951 it has a very intelligent screenplay and excellent performances with a special mention for Liam Redmond. Well worth a viewing.
***** Grow up, Mark! You are not a cute as you think you are.
No such thing as a good British film? A perfectly unfounded remark, lacking in veracity, taste & good will. Risible.
mckavitt13 How can the absence of foundation in a remark be perfect: that's a contradiction in its own terms.
Micheal Sean O'Dubhghaill Similar production and writing qualities to The Spy in Black!
The Communist take over began in 1926 after Stalin murdered his way to the top of the Soviet Union. They hit this country as well [The Rosenbergs were NKVD agents]
rather see the logos and enjoy the great movie, than not get to see this most enjoyed movie! Hannah, thank you for time and effort for my being able to enjoy this movie. So sorry you have to hear from folks are jerks! tell I said it, from los angeles , california
Great movie! Thanks so much for uploading it. I didn't think the logo was too bad. I was able to ignore it without a problem. In other videos, they try to get around copyright issues by speeding up or slowing down the tape, or by cutting off part of the picture. This was far better than those practices.
Large logo in top left assures I'll never access the website promoted.
copy right requirements
Lisa German oh dear what fun how sad,! 🐖💨💨. 😂😂😂😂
Cheerio
Bye whiner
@@kathleencampbell2298 It could have been smaller... copyright or not....so there!
Thanks so much for this. Saw it years ago and I find it intriguing still, (pun intended). The logo bothered me not a whit. People are so spoiled.
For those who insist on telling the rest of us NOT to complain... there are legit reasons why we are annoyed. The logo -thing is so damned (insert expletive of choice) big. Plenty of other YT channels have a smaller logo, bottom RH or LH side. Take a huge hint and try being subtle with your commercial advertising for a dodgy DVD ripper for MAC.
Quite a line-up of post war stalwarts of British film and TV. The giant logo was irritating...but not so much as the antiquities "experts" thinking the Etruscans were in ancient Greece rather than Italy.
Were not the Etruscans a greel colony on the itialian pen. Before Roman times?
Very Well-Done!!!
I suspect that if We we’re All aware of how closeTyranny & Destruction are to Us at all-times, We would be paralyzed with fear.
I Thank & Praise-God for actively protecting and defending Us at all-times!!!
Excellent movie i love this era of black and white films thankyou
High treason abounds! Not a word in comments about the movie. I say thanks for trying. Thank you for DOING!!! V
6 years after end of ww2 and the idea of a power hungry individual is not forgotten in the UK. Pinewood / HMG propaganda but well executed. great cast, script and locations. Logo not noticed after couple of minutes. thanks for upload Hannah Clulow
Well done. Why the Rank-era flms are my favorites.
Get rid of the stupid logo and I might watch the movie !
Once again, the best. There is nothing to compare with an British Movie. Thank you Hannah Clulow, for sharing; too, your marvelous Mum for sharing with her students. The logo, initially distracting, the acting, plot etc., was so captivating, that the logo for myself, disappeared into oblivion. A gem indeed!!!
I fear this, or something similar, happening in the US today with the Army that's walked across our borders unopposed.
What an incredible find. Despite the obvious propaganda it was excellent. What I found nostalgic at the end was the BBC home service explaining the power disruptions. The government and BBC I once respected no longer have my support. I loath looking at the Palace of Westminster as I do the famous BBC logo. To me they now represent the villains portrayed in this film.
We have an utterly corrupt Parliament, regardless of which Party may be in government.
It is all about the blame game. Someones life is not where they want it to be so they can blame themselves and mistakes they made or blame just plane bad luck. Then of course they can blame someone else, the Government. Anarchists, fascist, and per-revolution communists come to mind.
Yes, the logo is annoying, but what a good film. One curious thing: offhand, and without checking, Andre Morrell, played a similar role, with the same name in Seven Days to Noon.
Thanks to Mary, below, for actually opining on the MOVIE. I appreciate it, and of course will need to forget about the upper left corner!
I'm interested in ruining other people's work with big obtrusive billboards, how can I get a copy of Aimersoft? Forehead tatoo?
What a nice surprise to find this on youtube. Thank you for sharing.
These English films are so unique of their time.
Please remember the quality of acting everyday lives in these films and making them interesting is quite a “feat” of extraordinary actors, never shall this be repeatedly again in our lifetimes. I thank the men and women and children for choosing this career to give me entertainment. God bless them !
Agree with Sulieman The Great ..why such a fuss about a logo. . still enjoyed the
movie immensely.
Excellent movie! Thank you, and if you can shrink the logo, that would be fine too.
Matthew 7:13-14
King James Version
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Love GodJesusHolySpirit With All your Heart Soul Mind n Strength Always n Forever n Ever AMÉN.
@@Papa-o33963 Amen