A very clever movie! Hats off to the playwriter and the screenplay writers. Acting was absolutely superb across the board. Great continuity (which evidently doesn't matter anymore in today's market), and it made sense from beginning to end. Thank you for this gem!
Thinking I hardly knew about Greta Gynt and Eric Portman before the first lockdown. I discovered them separatly. And now, this movie with both of them in ! British films of this period are really fantastically good !
Brilliant movie, really enjoyed this.This is as movies should be , no bad language etc. These movies are hard to beat.The fact they are in black & white enhances them.Thanks for the upload.
Evidently no one cussed in England in the 40's even when encountering an unfaithful spouse and her lovers or when being murdered. So classy to the last breath or maybe their proper decorum meant more to them than their marriages and their very lives? Seems life itself was PG back then.
I was a few minutes into this film when I realized I had indeed seen it before quite some time ago. Did I move on to something else? NO, I couldn’t bring myself to stop watching, it’s that good! I’m extremely partial to these type of movies, & this one is a winner! Thanks so much. 🏆
Yet another fantastic film noir from a time when writers could write, and actors could convincingly act. You sure know how to find them @Retrospective. I have only recently discovered your channel and could not be more grateful. What a wonderful distraction from all of the current happenings and stress that most of us face daily. 🙏🥂
I agree, the writers now use vulgar language and no interesting storylines most are either violent or typical of today's society. You want to escape in the movie not get more tensed and feel agitatied after watching, you already see it in the daily grind.
Excellent film. Eric Portman is one of those actors who always makes great films, whether by choice or by luck I know not. A great story line where unlike so many modern films, it is script driven with no obvious violence.
Isn't it interesting that the movie covered two murders, one attempted murder, two affairs, one marital reunion and yet..... not a drop of blood, the only physical violence was a slap from one man to another (not including the actual murder), zero sex scenes, zero nudity, absolutely no swearing and, above all, excellent diction that albeit this is an old movie, it is possible to understand every word. AND YET .. so many of us have enjoyed this movie more than once - I find sometimes I manage to watch a new movie for about 5 minutes and due to the mumblings of some inane dialogue when the "actor" attempts to pronounce words that are longer than one syllable..... I just give up - I look at my husband and ask.... "can you understand what he's saying".....inevitably he shakes his head and says......"let's try something else "(this usually means reverting to RUclips).
No obvious violence? I'd call murder extreme violence! However, with these old movies you know for sure the baddie won't get away with his crime. :-) Very enjoyable film though.
It's intoxidatingly upper class. These people are 5% of the population. Not representative of the general public. They are the rich who oppress the rest of us. We have fought hard to have ordinary people on our screens. Films have got way better as a consequence.
@@markrymanowski719 What? The cops are the 5%? The servants are the 5%? Even the barrister Fenton and business man Warren are not part of the 5%. If you have to suit up and go to work you're not part of the 5%. None of these are people are royalty so go take your outrage somewhere else.
Thank you a fine British classic crime drama . Your efforts to make these interesting films accessible for film lovers is much appreciated. A fine cultural service. Well done.
I don't consider myself old-fashioned, but I am at a loss as to why it is necessary to have gutter language and overt sex scenes in most modern movies. Can't the story speak for itself?
@@vickikay54 I think it's a hangover from the 1960s, when young film-makers wanted 'realism' (which they thought meant sex, profanity and violence). That has now become the conventional, accepted norm for films. Oddly enough, explicit sex scenes in film seem to have become less common, possibly because of concerns over 'me too' exploitation and the fact that hard core pornography is freely available online.
@Mr Storni American movies always have the same formula, and the characters are always stereotypes. Theres always guns in US movies too, when most of the world has never touched a gun. I dont know why the British film industry collapsed. They should start making movies again. I havent watched any American modern movies for years. Now its even worse with all the woke propaganda.
I’ve seen this film quite a few times, excellent cast, brilliantly witty and clever storylines and a great quality old movie. Thank you for sharing this classic.
The very minute that the fellow answered the door to the husband... their first exchange of words and I knew I was hooked! Yes another great film, thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you!
The fantastic Eric Portman always superb in his films, Wanted for Murder, Spider & the Fly, 49th Parallel and the enchanting Canterbury Tale, to name a few ♥️♥️
Thanks for uploading.A very enjoyable British noir. Greyta Gynt is an excellent femme fatelle in this.Rest of the cast play their parts well and the script is intelligent and witty.
Brilliant and compelling. Just enough wit to make the events move effortlessly, but not a distraction. Only within the last two or three years have I come to recognize the genre for the greatness that it is. The exotic Hungarian setting added another fascinating layer. Thank you so much for making this available to a retiree on a strict budget, living a modest life. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Lindley
I can't believe I finally came across a "channel" that airs my very favorite type of movie - I have looked for this genre many times only to come across only one or two on a channel. Thank you so much. I hope you stay on RUclips for a long long time.
@Moth’s Mummy I know what you mean. I have a small 19th century cottage and do not want to clutter it with a large modern TV. Instead I use a laptop projector (costs about £60 from Amazon) which projects old movies from RUclips onto the wall, at a size of about 6'x4'. I can now have 'movie night' whenever I want it.
I love the witty line in the scene where the second boyfriend arrives at the apartment with flowers for the wife followed shortly by the police inspector to inform of the death of the first boyfriend. When the maid announces the inspector's arrival, the husband asks "Is he bringing flowers?"
@Cat Magic [that says it all] How about showing a little restraint yourself? Watch the film first, and read the comments later. It is as simple as that. 😊
💗💗💗💗💗 EXCELLENT MOVIE! ESPECIALLY WITH THIS CARONAVIRUS SHUT IN! THIS IS ALL I DO WHILE RELAXING; WATCH ALL THE OLD CLASSIC MOVIES! THANKYOU SO MUCH!!!
A great film &, initially, I wasn't going to watch it again (having seen it some years ago). However, I thought what the heck & why not. Good thing I did, because there's tonnes of stuff that I couldn't recall which, for someone with a good memory, is incredible. Eric Portman never disappointed & this one is no exception. Actors like Portman, Warner, & so on simply don't exist nowadays & never will again. And so, to step through that door into another time is the only way to do it. Many thanks for the upload 👍.
Thanks a million for the superb upload. Splendid movie with extremely sharp, original, and relentless script. Doesn't waste or relax for nary a minute. Excellent depictions by actors of utterly human-less human beings, for whom self interest is the sole determinant in life.
I've recommended this film to MANY people since you posted it. Revisiting it now during the virus lockdown. What a treasure this one is -- thanks for all your uploads!
Terrific twisting plot, reminded me a little of the husband’s plotting in Dial M for Murder. Maxwell Reed, who plays Jimmy, became Joan Collins’ first husband a few years after this. Jack Warner, Inspector Pembury, played one of the most famous London coppers, Dixon of Dock Green, on BBC TV in 22 series and 432 episodes from 1955 to 1976, a character he first played in The Blue Lamp in1950. He was already past police retirement age in 1955 when it started!
I can never stop my feelings (7 years is impossible to forget) the woman who stopped loving me . . . for another man - I am a human being with feelings
I have been meaning to watch this film since 1993 when I was 19 years old and saw a clip of it in a documentary about Eric Portman. Well 27 years later on I have finally found the time to do so helped with the much improve digital media platforms not available to me 27 years ago. I must say that it was a joy to watch, especially seeing Jack Warner cast as police inspector, a for shadow of his future acting roles and to my shame I failed to spot Hazel Court until the end of the film. For a film that is now over 70 years old I found it well paced and the plot directions flowed well and kept you watching so you didn't miss anything.
and the masks, social distancing, school closing, mandates, vaccines, etc. had no affect on the spread of the virus, as we are finding out 3 yrs. later. It was all for nothing, and violated our rights. We can't allow it to happen again.
@Retrospective Thanks for posting this movie. I love these true crime noir films. It had a great plot that I've never seen before, with plenty of cleaver twists and turns to keep me thinking and worrying if he would be discovered as the true murderer. Excellent acting with perfect British manners employed in every scene. It will keep your attention throughout. Most enjoyable.
The husband is of course still courteous enough to ask his wife's boyfriend "By the way, have you had your breakfast?" whilst questioning him over their affair! A+ manners.
I do not think is manners is more the lack of a soul and a very insensitive individual. The lack of passion is not a quality, passion is not polite, it is raw and true, emotions are not supposed to control us but the lack of emotions makes us monsters. I hope we are not polite robots with A + manners, I hope we are imperfect humans with unpredictable emotions, that keeps us alive and away from a sterile and "clean and safe" life. I would be polite with people who deserves to be polite to, not with a cheating wife and a weasel of a man. The man does not respect me, my wife, my family and I have to respect him? Give me a break with your "english manners". hai sictir
@@balauruldeaur1271 You clearly don't have a sense of humour, particularly not of the English variety. I'm sorry that you failed so miserably in understanding my comment, as well as the film's brilliantly ironic dialogue.
Thanks for uploading this, This is a great film with two great British actors Eric Portman and Dennis Price, (shame Dennis didn't have a longer part in the film,)
How did viewers sit through this stuff! No F word, B word , s word or any words mom and dad told us no to say. No nudity ...no gritty stuff (whatever that is..I call it not being able to do this). Just a GEAT movie. Glad I grew up with parents who grew up with this.
Thanks to our puritanical forbearers, we grew up thinking gratuitous abstinence in language and passion comprised verisimilitude, so real life cultivated shame. Yeah, thanks Mom and Dad.
I grew up middle class, my mother was the picture of beauty and correctness, so were my parents' friends, and all of them cussed like sailors. TRUE ENOUGH, I was not allowed to say those words, which meant I would say them only out of earshot. Early in her adulthood my mother was secretary to a Methodist minister who cussed. But anyone who says cursing and swearing is nauseatingly out of control today and should STOP can be my president. Even worse than the swearing is this recent thing where bodily fluids (spit, etc.) are given center stage. People throwing up, men standing at urinals, and worse, worse, worse. It's on TV constantly. This is something I do not understand.
I have always LOVED this film!!! The fine-tuned script just flows from 'A-thru-Z', with the entire cast performing brilliantly.... and Believably!! Portman's and Gynt's roles are "A Slice of Reality", where the Rank Organization Production hits yet another 'Home Run'....!!!
This is such a clever little movie....great story line w/romance and quite thrilling! The actors were totally on the mark, music was great too. Thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish....Thanks for the post!
@@autumnt.allgood8895 The music was far too loud over much of the speech. I missed a lot this way, and the subtitles were useless. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed the film. If the husband hadn't been so egotistical and vengeful by telling his wife, he would have got away with it.
This is an excellent British noir film. Although the actors are unknown here, they do a very good job, and the plot is something one would expect from any good U.S. screenwriter of the time. The dialogue also is terse and keeps the tension at a high pitch.
@@johannarichmond106you're exactly right, my Mom was always fully dressed by 7:00 am, looking fabulous.❤ Me, not so much lol. PJ's until 11:00 am when I could get away with it.😄
@@johannarichmond106 Yes that is true...I'm 70 and can remember my mother in the 1950s and 1960s dressing every day in smart clothes. She told me that would earn the respect of the cleaner and the gardener! I loved mother greatly but she was quite the snob!
I just love week-ends after wearing nice dresses, clothes, shoes for work I hang out in my *formal Underwear* lol. Sometimes without wearing make-up now that's naked :)
Hog-tied on the couch, the victim says this (11:57): "Now, perhaps you'll be good enough to explain your quite extraordinary behaviour!" There'll always be an England.
That really struck me, too! Reminds me of "Five Weeks in a Balloon" when the group is trapped in a dungeon with skeletons all around them, and the rather stuffy Richard Haydn says, "When we get back to England, I'm going to write a letter of complaint to the London Times" ;D
Oh, well. Let's hope they stay home from the imperial wars of conquest so there won't be as many as in older times. Many more Brits will stay alive that way (The Four Feathers). Also many more Australians (Breaker Morant).
Even when the husband says, ""...I'll blow your guts out..." he sounds ever so polite. Great movie! Worth watching a second time; which is what I am doing now! Thanks for posting! 👍👍😷✌
@@kathysavoy8622 No, the police knew her husband killed Fenton. And since she poisoned her husband she is off to the klammer and Warren got his justice being dead.
Thank you, whoever posted this movie. I enjoyed it a lot, even made some popcorn to munch on. I wish the quality of the sound was better. The music was always louder than the speech. CC was so incorrect I turned it off. Did anyone else think the murderer and the detective looked a little bit alike? Hmm.. It is a good story, and is not driven by gore and such. I would always welcome finding such good entertainment here!
My family and friends thought it was funny I loved these movies as a kid and I stilllove them now. I have many bw movies in my collection. I love these old mysteries.The writing directing scenery acting just great. No need for CGI blood gore sex filth.I love finding more of these old films to see for the first time and this is a good one.
In these rants like yours, why is sex always described as filthy along with the same vehement aversion to bloody violence in film today⁉️ The aversion to violence and gore is understandable but the aversion to sex in its place seems to be a running theme in these homage to the old classics and disdain for the new cinema, some of which are bound to become classics. Nostalgia, that’s how that works. Sex isn’t always vile and filthy; it’s most certainly how we all arrived here! Good grief. This woman is licentious to say the least. That she was having sex with two men not her husband seems to escape critics like you. Why, because it’s offscreen? She’d be no more repugnant naked and shown gamboling in the sheets from one and on to the next between showers one must hope. Oh gosh, and she’s a murderer but thank goodness - no bloody gore. That makes you feel better watching I suppose. Focus on the deeds not the pretty pictures of the vile acts. Just saying...
@@jeanettesdaughter Its about gratuitous sex and violence though. Showing depraved acts for the sake of showing those acts. The point people are making is they prefer good stories. Its even worse today most movies are full of woke propaganda. With internet porn, the movies cant sell sex like used to, they cant compete with porn, so now they make woke propaganda movies instead, and rehash marvel characters. Movies are garbage today.
Great film and thanks for uploading. If Hollywierd, was smart they would start taking a second look at the "silver age" of films and what made them such success. I often wonder does anyone from there ever take a look at comments about films like these now. All they seem to be cranking out now a days is stuff going straight to D.V.D. and that even isn't working out for those that know how to get films on the illegal side.
Chillingly well acted, some great one liners. Very good quality copy (although in places the music overwhelmed some of the repertoire). Recommend, well worth watching.
What a cracking Film. Extremely well worked out with some Great acting and even better script. Mind you, anything with Jack Warner and Eric Portman ( anyone think thy looked alike in this film?) Is bound to be Excellent. Thanks for uploading. More of the same please!!!!!
Nothing can beat the classics! My 2TB harddisk is filled with British and Hollywood classics, including films from Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland and Hungary - all classic black -and-white movies of yesteryears, in full, crisp 1080p resolution. In my country, there are no... ahem! (you know what I mean), and that's how I get all these movies from those websites (you know their names) to enrich my personal collection. I recently bought a 5TB harddisk to further increase my collection. I cannot leave planet Earth before I watch most of these classics, some of them many times. Feast your eyes on good cinema for as long as you live. If you do so, you won't regret the exit, for you'll feel that you've lived a fuller, happier and richer life here on earth 🙂🙂
I enjoyed this movie... between eating kfc and my face glued to the TV...I just love their dialogues even their insults are so smooth polish and sharp. No curse words. Love it.
I’m 16 years old and all I watch is these older movies and that’s what I watched with my grandpa and grandma when I was younger .
Good for you. When I was your age, I discovered them, too. And still love them today. Even more than new films.
How lovely. Good for you! Much better than the garbage of today.
Very cool!
same here.
I’m so glad that I raised my children watching them as well. They are in college now, but they still watch the old and only mix in a few new films!
A very clever movie! Hats off to the playwriter and the screenplay writers. Acting was absolutely superb across the board. Great continuity (which evidently doesn't matter anymore in today's market), and it made sense from beginning to end. Thank you for this gem!
Thinking I hardly knew about Greta Gynt and Eric Portman before the first lockdown. I discovered them separatly. And now, this movie with both of them in ! British films of this period are really fantastically good !
Brilliant movie, really enjoyed this.This is as movies should be , no bad language etc. These movies are hard to beat.The fact they are in black & white enhances them.Thanks for the upload.
Evidently no one cussed in England in the 40's even when encountering an unfaithful spouse and her lovers or when being murdered. So classy to the last breath or maybe their proper decorum meant more to them than their marriages and their very lives? Seems life itself was PG back then.
@@xmillion1704 All so very civil: "So, you want to murder me? Can I offer you a cigarette?"
I was a few minutes into this film when I realized I had indeed seen it before quite some time ago. Did I move on to something else? NO, I couldn’t bring myself to stop watching, it’s that good! I’m extremely partial to these type of movies, & this one is a winner! Thanks so much. 🏆
me, too...i have seen it and it's weird that i cannot stop..possibly because i cannot remember what happened
And I thought it was just me.....😂😂
@@anaderol5408 Same here!
Lol, I do that a lot. I have a memory impairment, and I can watch a movie I've seen before and not remember how it ends. Lemon, lemonade...
@@kweejibodali3078😅
Pride, vanity, narcissism, lust, envy, and murder. The human condition as it really is. Pure Gold.
Exactly
As a beautiful lady said about her ex
“What’s not to love?”
"narcissism" overused, not used correctly🙄
Yet another fantastic film noir from a time when writers could write, and actors could convincingly act. You sure know how to find them @Retrospective. I have only recently discovered your channel and could not be more grateful. What a wonderful distraction from all of the current happenings and stress that most of us face daily. 🙏🥂
I agree, the writers now use vulgar language and no interesting storylines most are either violent or typical of today's society. You want to escape in the movie not get more tensed and feel agitatied after watching, you already see it in the daily grind.
@@LilliR4116 don't forget the leftist agenda or the normalization of perversions and mental illness.
It’s not film noir but it was a good murder story.
Now everything is VFX no good storyline.
Totally agree
Judith Moore
What a gem! Really full of atmosphere and intrigue, highly recommended, and a antidote to the state of current abysmal entertainment.
😮 🙏🏽🕊️❤️
Just thankful to be able to have the opportunity in watching these oldies ♥️
Excellent film. Eric Portman is one of those actors who always makes great films, whether by choice or by luck I know not. A great story line where unlike so many modern films, it is script driven with no obvious violence.
Isn't it interesting that the movie covered two murders, one attempted murder, two affairs, one marital reunion and yet..... not a drop of blood, the only physical violence was a slap from one man to another (not including the actual murder), zero sex scenes, zero nudity, absolutely no swearing and, above all, excellent diction that albeit this is an old movie, it is possible to understand every word. AND YET .. so many of us have enjoyed this movie more than once - I find sometimes I manage to watch a new movie for about 5 minutes and due to the mumblings of some inane dialogue when the "actor" attempts to pronounce words that are longer than one syllable..... I just give up - I look at my husband and ask.... "can you understand what he's saying".....inevitably he shakes his head and says......"let's try something else "(this usually means reverting to RUclips).
No obvious violence? I'd call murder extreme violence! However, with these old movies you know for sure the baddie won't get away with his crime. :-) Very enjoyable film though.
@@anaderol5408 You said it.
@@anaderol5408 ...and NO drugs...
@@anaderol5408: I so agree!
I am completely enraptured by this movie, it is so intoxicatingly English. The British movies from these years are always so entertaining.
They're so polite..... even when they're murdering each other!
If you like British movies I recommend "Marigold Hotel" with Maggie Smith. that is the short title.
It's intoxidatingly upper class.
These people are 5% of the population.
Not representative of the general public.
They are the rich who oppress
the rest of us.
We have fought hard to have ordinary people on our screens.
Films have got way better
as a consequence.
@@markrymanowski719 What? The cops are the 5%? The servants are the 5%? Even the barrister Fenton and business man Warren are not part of the 5%. If you have to suit up and go to work you're not part of the 5%. None of these are people are royalty so go take your outrage somewhere else.
You're so right. I hope more of these get uploaded as I had never seen or heard of British film noir.
There’s absolutely nothing I could add that hasn’t been mentioned before! What a gem!!!
Thank you a fine British classic crime drama . Your efforts to make these interesting films accessible for film lovers is much appreciated. A fine cultural service. Well done.
Cultural service?? Give me a break!!!
Let me also thank you.otherwise, I won't be able to view these old flics.
@@watercloset99 Where would you like it? Wrist or ankles?
Old joke courtesy of Firesign Theatre "Nick Danger Third Eye"
Old movies are always wonderful to watch.
Now this is how you make a movie! Modern filmmakers, on both sides of the pond, would do well to take note! Great stuff!
YES,THEY SHOULD TAKE LESSONS.
I don't consider myself old-fashioned, but I am at a loss as to why it is necessary to have gutter language and overt sex scenes in most modern movies. Can't the story speak for itself?
@@vickikay54 I think it's a hangover from the 1960s, when young film-makers wanted 'realism' (which they thought meant sex, profanity and violence). That has now become the conventional, accepted norm for films. Oddly enough, explicit sex scenes in film seem to have become less common, possibly because of concerns over 'me too' exploitation and the fact that hard core pornography is freely available online.
@@Londonfogey And now we´re bored with it. Ho-hum.
@Mr Storni American movies always have the same formula, and the characters are always stereotypes. Theres always guns in US movies too, when most of the world has never touched a gun. I dont know why the British film industry collapsed. They should start making movies again. I havent watched any American modern movies for years. Now its even worse with all the woke propaganda.
I’ve seen this film quite a few times, excellent cast, brilliantly witty and clever storylines and a great quality old movie. Thank you for sharing this classic.
Jec: Witty ?? Do you know what that word means ?
This is now one of my all time favorite movies!
So many twists and turns. Excellent. Not a shot was fired. They don't make em like this anymore.
I consider this to be one of Eric Portman's best films. Rather grim, but quite interesting.
This movie was so amazingly good! They don’t make them like this anymore. The acting was superb! Thanks for the download.😊🎥🍿
“It’s not the going out that I mind it’s the staying in I object too” classic. Thank you for posting.
Great script!
The very minute that the fellow answered the door to the husband... their first exchange of words and I knew I was hooked!
Yes another great film, thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you!
The fantastic Eric Portman always superb in his films, Wanted for Murder, Spider & the Fly, 49th Parallel and the enchanting Canterbury Tale, to name a few ♥️♥️
I love old black and white movies. Especially film noir! This is one I somehow missed. Thank you for uploading it!
Thanks for uploading.A very enjoyable British noir. Greyta Gynt is an excellent femme fatelle in this.Rest of the cast play their parts well and the script is intelligent and witty.
Full of twists and turns. Very enjoyable
A good old-fashioned crime thriller the way I like 'em. Thanks for uploading.
What a fantastic movie, what a twist! 👏 After 75 years later, still incredible. Thank you 🤝
Brilliant and compelling. Just enough wit to make the events move effortlessly, but not a distraction. Only within the last two or three years have I come to recognize the genre for the greatness that it is. The exotic Hungarian setting added another fascinating layer. Thank you so much for making this available to a retiree on a strict budget, living a modest life. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Lindley
"Exotic Hungarian setting"...? Can you explain, please?
Wonderful story, so well written and acted!
Eric Portman and Jack Warner, what a great pairing and a clever plot. Many thanks for sharing such a fine old British movie...
Compelled to add; this is an excellent film! Thanks for this gem.
Only 7min. in and already delighted with the witty writing!
I can't believe I finally came across a "channel" that airs my very favorite type of movie - I have looked for this genre many times only to come across only one or two on a channel. Thank you so much. I hope you stay on RUclips for a long long time.
Your comment is 2 years ago. If you’re referring to the film noir “genre”, there are tons of them on YT. I hope you have found some to your liking.
Someone somewhere sometime recommended this film. I loved it. Thank you for making it available.
Love it. Great dialogue . Sat watching as a Matinee film. Cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit . Heaven.
Like your thinking!
Cigarette inspector? Whisky inspector? Cigarette inspector? Drink, inspector? Have a cigarette? Drink? Whisky? etc etc etc
Lovely😃 You must be British.
@Moth’s Mummy I agree. Things and people were more refined. Things were more traditional.
@Moth’s Mummy I know what you mean. I have a small 19th century cottage and do not want to clutter it with a large modern TV. Instead I use a laptop projector (costs about £60 from Amazon) which projects old movies from RUclips onto the wall, at a size of about 6'x4'. I can now have 'movie night' whenever I want it.
I love the witty line in the scene where the second boyfriend arrives at the apartment with flowers for the wife followed shortly by the police inspector to inform of the death of the first boyfriend. When the maid announces the inspector's arrival, the husband asks "Is he bringing flowers?"
@Cat Magic [that says it all] How about showing a little restraint yourself? Watch the film first, and read the comments later. It is as simple as that. 😊
@@againstallodds3300 -Nah. If something's a stinker, I prefer to know 1st.
40:25 good line
Very 😄
Lori Tracy
Preview of coming attractions
More PURE BRITISH FILM NOIR please! Excellent audio and sound quality, great performance and engaging script! Well done!
Actually couldn’t hear some parts of the narration with music playing underneath
How is Baretta doing, Huggy? Still pimping?
@@orangesbrown5226 I don't what the hell
happened there.
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EXCELLENT MOVIE!
ESPECIALLY WITH THIS CARONAVIRUS SHUT IN! THIS IS ALL I DO WHILE RELAXING; WATCH ALL THE OLD CLASSIC MOVIES!
THANKYOU SO MUCH!!!
A great film &, initially, I wasn't going to watch it again (having seen it some years ago). However, I thought what the heck & why not. Good thing I did, because there's tonnes of stuff that I couldn't recall which, for someone with a good memory, is incredible. Eric Portman never disappointed & this one is no exception. Actors like Portman, Warner, & so on simply don't exist nowadays & never will again. And so, to step through that door into another time is the only way to do it. Many thanks for the upload 👍.
Thanks a million for the superb upload. Splendid movie with extremely sharp, original, and relentless script. Doesn't waste or relax for nary a minute. Excellent depictions by actors of utterly human-less human beings, for whom self interest is the sole determinant in life.
What a great old classic movie……just loved it. No foul language and racy sex scenes; a marvellous story with wonderful acting. Thanks so much!
I've recommended this film to MANY people since you posted it. Revisiting it now during the virus lockdown. What a treasure this one is -- thanks for all your uploads!
Terrific twisting plot, reminded me a little of the husband’s plotting in Dial M for Murder. Maxwell Reed, who plays Jimmy, became Joan Collins’ first husband a few years after this. Jack Warner, Inspector Pembury, played one of the most famous London coppers, Dixon of Dock Green, on BBC TV in 22 series and 432 episodes from 1955 to 1976, a character he first played in The Blue Lamp in1950. He was already past police retirement age in 1955 when it started!
He sorta reminds me of Ed Ames.
Excellent movie, Eric Portman was a superb actor in whatever role he played.
I find his delivery extremely mechanical.
Yes Eric Portman is sublime, no one played sinister better than him had that stare as well, check out Wanted for Murder. Great actor ❤️
@@ange9663 Thanks I will.
My aunt once said, "If someone stops loving me, I stop loving them." It took me a few decades to appreciate the wisdom in that.
I think I understand what you aunt meant. I'm 79 and I get it now. Thank you for sharing this.
I can never stop my feelings (7 years is impossible to forget) the woman who stopped loving me . . . for another man - I am a human being with feelings
@@TAROTAI THat's true but divert that love to someone else who can give it back in the future......Life is shorter now than it used to be!!
Precisely!
If you can turn your love off like a faucet, then you never truly loved the person at all.
What a wonderfully written and acted out twisted tale!!
This movie has class. Keeps being interesting and entertaining all the way through. First rate.
Thank you. I have never seen this before. It is a real gem.
I have been meaning to watch this film since 1993 when I was 19 years old and saw a clip of it in a documentary about Eric Portman. Well 27 years later on I have finally found the time to do so helped with the much improve digital media platforms not available to me 27 years ago.
I must say that it was a joy to watch, especially seeing Jack Warner cast as police inspector, a for shadow of his future acting roles and to my shame I failed to spot Hazel Court until the end of the film.
For a film that is now over 70 years old I found it well paced and the plot directions flowed well and kept you watching so you didn't miss anything.
Better late than never!
One of the top 10 films of the pandemic. Loved every minute of it.
Seems pandemic mode either ended folks from affairs or where put out to pasture to be used and tortured. Cliffs of insanity
plandemic?
@@mr.blackhawk142 ditos plandemic stay tuned more to come
and the masks, social distancing, school closing, mandates, vaccines, etc. had no affect on the spread of the virus, as we are finding out 3 yrs. later. It was all for nothing, and violated our rights. We can't allow it to happen again.
@@mr.blackhawk142 No, pandemic. Ask someone.
Thank you so much for uploading this, They sure don't make them like they used to 😍
This is the most polite Noir I've ever watched.
All so very civil: "So, you want to murder me? May I offer you a cigarette?"
Absolutely wonderful film!!!! Thank you! More than you'll realize!!
@Retrospective Thanks for posting this movie. I love these true crime noir films. It had a great plot that I've never seen before, with plenty of cleaver twists and turns to keep me thinking and worrying if he would be discovered as the true murderer. Excellent acting with perfect British manners employed in every scene. It will keep your attention throughout. Most enjoyable.
i love the way everyone is so well groomed .
& so evil
The husband is of course still courteous enough to ask his wife's boyfriend "By the way, have you had your breakfast?" whilst questioning him over their affair! A+ manners.
Only a British gentleman of this era could be so polite as he described, in gruesome detail, his plans to do away with you.
I do not think is manners is more the lack of a soul and a very insensitive individual. The lack of passion is not a quality, passion is not polite, it is raw and true, emotions are not supposed to control us but the lack of emotions makes us monsters. I hope we are not polite robots with A + manners, I hope we are imperfect humans with unpredictable emotions, that keeps us alive and away from a sterile and "clean and safe" life. I would be polite with people who deserves to be polite to, not with a cheating wife and a weasel of a man. The man does not respect me, my wife, my family and I have to respect him? Give me a break with your "english manners". hai sictir
@@balauruldeaur1271 You clearly don't have a sense of humour, particularly not of the English variety. I'm sorry that you failed so miserably in understanding my comment, as well as the film's brilliantly ironic dialogue.
@@controlleddemolition9112 l. Please m
Civil.
Another fantastic movie that you have gifted us with by uploading it for us. I just loved it. Thank you so much. Bless you.
Thanks for uploading this, This is a great film with two great British actors Eric Portman and Dennis Price, (shame Dennis didn't have a longer part in the film,)
Incredibly good! Time well spent . Plot, script, and acting - two thumbs up !
Wow...just wow. An excellent flick like every single minute it keeps you glued
What a brilliant film, wonderful actors and a suspenseful story line. How the worm turns. Thank you.
Like a few others, I've seen this film previously, but its very good viewing, and was delighted to find it again, Thank you for posting,
It was good movie but the beginning was frightening. Ruthless. Well acted all.
20 Star film right here! A true classic!
A really good enjoyable movie. You just can't beat the oldies, thank you very very much
Peace and Blessings 💖 👼
Awesome plot and a lot of providence
.. loved this movie
How did viewers sit through this stuff! No F word, B word , s word or any words mom and dad told us no to say. No nudity ...no gritty stuff (whatever that is..I call it not being able to do this). Just a GEAT movie. Glad I grew up with parents who grew up with this.
You're so right on!
We all were raised by the people who raised the people who raised our parents, so... I'm sure Victorians would have found this movie quite scandalous!
Thanks to our puritanical forbearers, we grew up thinking gratuitous abstinence in language and passion comprised verisimilitude, so real life cultivated shame. Yeah, thanks Mom and Dad.
@@xmillion1704 Yeah! These things!
I grew up middle class, my mother was the picture of beauty and correctness, so were my parents' friends, and all of them cussed like sailors. TRUE ENOUGH, I was not allowed to say those words, which meant I would say them only out of earshot. Early in her adulthood my mother was secretary to a Methodist minister who cussed. But anyone who says cursing and swearing is nauseatingly out of control today and should STOP can be my president. Even worse than the swearing is this recent thing where bodily fluids (spit, etc.) are given center stage. People throwing up, men standing at urinals, and worse, worse, worse. It's on TV constantly. This is something I do not understand.
I have always LOVED this film!!! The fine-tuned script just flows from 'A-thru-Z', with the entire cast performing brilliantly.... and Believably!! Portman's and Gynt's roles are "A Slice of Reality", where the Rank Organization Production hits yet another 'Home Run'....!!!
This is such a clever little movie....great story line w/romance and quite thrilling! The actors were totally on the mark, music was great too. Thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish....Thanks for the post!
WHEN WAS DOING HIS NARRATIVE THE MUSIC WAS A TAD TO LOUD OVER HIS VOICE.
CORRECTION:
WHEN THE HUSBAND WAS DOING HIS NARRATIVE.
@@autumnt.allgood8895 The music was far too loud over much of the speech. I missed a lot this way, and the subtitles were useless. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed the film. If the husband hadn't been so egotistical and vengeful by telling his wife, he would have got away with it.
@@autumnt.allgood8895 Don't shout.
@@eshaibraheem4218 They have to in order to be heard over the music.
I just love Gainsborough movie and thank you for sharing.
When you see the big Rank gong or the Gainsborough woman, you know it's going to be a good one.
Loved the dialogue ❣️ “It’s not the going out I mind, it’s the staying in🤗❤️🥰🎉🎊❣️Excellent movie and acting thank you for uploading🤗💥💕🎉
Love these classic movies n that's what they r CLASSIC!!!!
This is an excellent British noir film. Although the actors are unknown here, they do a very good job, and the plot is something one would expect from any good U.S. screenwriter of the time. The dialogue also is terse and keeps the tension at a high pitch.
You are so rude, it's funny.
I love the music, so dramatic..
How it builds to a loud crescendo...
Really gives body to the film.
A lot of high pitched, high maintenance gad abouts ;)
It isn't noir.
But very good film.
This recent trend on you tube, calling every movie "film noir" - as long as it's in black and white!
@@bluecollarlit Yes, I know. It's maddening. I've mentioned it a couple of times and received a telling off for saying so!
You cannot help but to love this old movies where everybody hangs out at home in full formal wear.
I love how they dressed back then. Men in well tailored suits & the women always in pretty dresses & gloves. Perfect.
@@johannarichmond106you're exactly right, my Mom was always fully dressed by 7:00 am, looking fabulous.❤ Me, not so much lol. PJ's until 11:00 am when I could get away with it.😄
@@johannarichmond106 Yes that is true...I'm 70 and can remember my mother in the 1950s and 1960s dressing every day in smart clothes. She told me that would earn the respect of the cleaner and the gardener! I loved mother greatly but she was quite the snob!
I just love week-ends after wearing nice dresses, clothes, shoes for work I hang out in my *formal Underwear* lol. Sometimes without wearing make-up now that's naked :)
@@russellgrenning1317 We weren't snobs. We had self- respect, and respect for others.
Hog-tied on the couch, the victim says this (11:57): "Now, perhaps you'll be good enough to explain your quite extraordinary behaviour!"
There'll always be an England.
That really struck me, too!
Reminds me of "Five Weeks in a Balloon" when the group is trapped in a dungeon with skeletons all around them, and the rather stuffy Richard Haydn says, "When we get back to England, I'm going to write a letter of complaint to the London Times" ;D
Oh, well. Let's hope they stay home from the imperial wars of conquest so there won't be as many as in older times. Many more Brits will stay alive that way (The Four Feathers). Also many more Australians (Breaker Morant).
I say....indubibably.
@@AnnE-mn8ny They inbreed too much, and they are filling the prisons, sooner or later, the cold cold snow will kill them off.
concoctionary - I say, under the circumstances that was rather a rum thing to say - wot?
Even when the husband says, ""...I'll blow your guts out..." he sounds ever so polite. Great movie! Worth watching a second time; which is what I am doing now! Thanks for posting! 👍👍😷✌
If ever a woman should have gotten an Oscar, whew! She was BRILLIANT in this role...
Hello. So she got blamed for both murders?
Greta Gynt did play this role to perfection! Excellent movie.
Cassandra James .... Yea the wife I so conniving she makes u hate and like her somewhat in the end.
She played a good whore
@@kathysavoy8622 No, the police knew her husband killed Fenton. And since she poisoned her husband she is off to the klammer and Warren got his justice being dead.
What a great suspenseful drama. Many thanks.
Thank you, whoever posted this movie. I enjoyed it a lot, even made some popcorn to munch on. I wish the quality of the sound was better. The music was always louder than the speech. CC was so incorrect I turned it off. Did anyone else think the murderer and the detective looked a little bit alike? Hmm.. It is a good story, and is not driven by gore and such. I would always welcome finding such good entertainment here!
My family and friends thought it was funny I loved these movies as a kid and I stilllove them now. I have many bw movies in my collection. I love these old mysteries.The writing directing scenery acting just great. No need for CGI blood gore sex filth.I love finding more of these old films to see for the first time and this is a good one.
In these rants like yours, why is sex always described as filthy along with the same vehement aversion to bloody violence in film today⁉️ The aversion to violence and gore is understandable but the aversion to sex in its place seems to be a running theme in these homage to the old classics and disdain for the new cinema, some of which are bound to become classics. Nostalgia, that’s how that works. Sex isn’t always vile and filthy; it’s most certainly how we all arrived here! Good grief. This woman is licentious to say the least. That she was having sex with two men not her husband seems to escape critics like you. Why, because it’s offscreen? She’d be no more repugnant naked and shown gamboling in the sheets from one and on to the next between showers one must hope. Oh gosh, and she’s a murderer but thank goodness - no bloody gore. That makes you feel better watching I suppose. Focus on the deeds not the pretty pictures of the vile acts. Just saying...
@@jeanettesdaughter Its about gratuitous sex and violence though. Showing depraved acts for the sake of showing those acts. The point people are making is they prefer good stories. Its even worse today most movies are full of woke propaganda. With internet porn, the movies cant sell sex like used to, they cant compete with porn, so now they make woke propaganda movies instead, and rehash marvel characters. Movies are garbage today.
@@tubester4567 I hate the Bad language today 2022.Films would be better without garbage words !
@@jeanettesdaughter Maybe some of us should NOT have 'arrived here'?
@@jeanettesdaughterShut up.
And the women's' fashions - such imagination, class and style!
I wish I could find an online boutique that sells vintage dresses like in these film noirs. I'd splurge on at least 1.
...and FURS.
Deviously witty dialogue, diabolically clever plot and an unfaithful wife.. Perfect!
Unfaithfull wives Åre Always My favorite type.
Briefest and most accurate review. Says it all.
Lying comes naturally for her.
Thank You for uploading these Classics💫!
Interesting British noir. Great to see Dennis Price and Jack Warner as I grew up with them on British tv.
It’s amazing watching these 70 years later. People didn’t have tv s then you had to go to the pictures
what you didn't have, you didn't miss.
Great film and thanks for uploading. If Hollywierd, was smart they would start taking a second look at the "silver age" of films and what made them such success. I often wonder does anyone from there ever take a look at comments about films like these now. All they seem to be cranking out now a days is stuff going straight to D.V.D. and that even isn't working out for those that know how to get films on the illegal side.
"Did he (the inspector) bring flowers?" Typical British humor! Excellent film.
Its British. they use lift no elevator haha.
Sarcastic humor. I LUV it.
Thank you for bringing that up. I overlooked that line until you pointed it out.
Watch out for those boys in blue.
Chillingly well acted, some great one liners. Very good quality copy (although in places the music overwhelmed some of the repertoire). Recommend, well worth watching.
What a witty and hilarious script - such fun!
What a great story plotline and brilliant acting . Thank you for uploading this xx
An extremely well written and well acted film. My final thought was what horrible people they all were.
Each one could have chosen a different path which would have saved them!
Love how the guy at the beginning goes through the house turning on all the lights but all the rooms are still dark....
It’s film noire
Day for Night.
I was thinking that it was still wartime and that they were still under blackout regulations. I had to check the release date of the film (1947).
Held my interest from first to last. Intelligent, which is rare in modern movies.
Rare but not unheard-of. :o)
What a cracking Film. Extremely well worked out with some Great acting and even better script. Mind you, anything with Jack Warner and Eric Portman ( anyone think thy looked alike in this film?) Is bound to be Excellent. Thanks for uploading. More of the same please!!!!!
Yes they looked very much alike - in fact I thought Lee Warren's part was played by Jack Warner at first.
Eric Portman also reminds me a little of John Mills, who would have been good in this role too.
@@Londonfogey John Mills could play Mother Teresa and be excellent!!!!!
These old movies are the best.
Nice to escape our troubled world for a while.
Superb! Thank you so much for
uploading 👍💖👏
Nothing can beat the classics! My 2TB harddisk is filled with British and Hollywood classics, including films from Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland and Hungary - all classic black -and-white movies of yesteryears, in full, crisp 1080p resolution. In my country, there are no... ahem! (you know what I mean), and that's how I get all these movies from those websites (you know their names) to enrich my personal collection. I recently bought a 5TB harddisk to further increase my collection. I cannot leave planet Earth before I watch most of these classics, some of them many times. Feast your eyes on good cinema for as long as you live. If you do so, you won't regret the exit, for you'll feel that you've lived a fuller, happier and richer life here on earth 🙂🙂
So enjoyable! Thanks for this. I enjoy pretty much everything with Jack Warner in it.
I enjoyed this movie... between eating kfc and my face glued to the TV...I just love their dialogues even their insults are so smooth polish and sharp. No curse words. Love it.