I wish I lived in this era. My Grannie always used to say they were the best times. Leslie Philips - I’ve never seen him in a serious role, such talented actor. These films were so good in content, good actors, not relying on CGI, no violence, and no sex and naked bodies needed. I don’t watch tv, or go to the cinema, it’s all rubbish now. Thank you for uploading all these wonderful movies. It’s much appreciated 💓❤️💓
it's surprising that Leslie was able to convey his real persona in his fictitious character - Philips was a promiscuous man throughout his entire life and this actually came out in the movie when you look at his interactions with women. I bet he loved a good shag!!! What's the chance that after filming he was having sex with one of the women from the set? Very high imo.
I agree with you. There are some good quality dramas on TV today but you really have to search for them. The BBC still produce a fair bit of good stuff if you don't mind British drama. Living in your Grannie's era wouldn't change things for you though. Your Gran's era was one of the most violent in history. World War Two killed 70 million people. Then there was Vietnam, Korea, in fact I don't think that in the last century there has been a moment of world peace. The 1918 flu epidemic killed an estimated 50 million. Thank God we have vaccines today. Measles, polio, small pox, whooping cough, tuberculosis etc. As much as I too pine for the 'old' days I think we live in the best time right now.
@@violinoscar but those periods of turmoil made us who we are. And Afghanistan and some countries in Africa would say it's still that bad. Syria. Yemen.
I was born in 55, and I would not want to go back to those earlier times. Times when women could only get a credit card in their husband's name. When black folks couldn't rent an apartment in many neighborhoods. When your local diner was filled with cigarette smoke. When you put you kids in a car that had no seat belts. I could make this a very long list.
You couldn't remember much as a neonate. I was born in 1948 and I can remember 1953 rather well as a 5-year-old. I can't believe Leslie Phillips was so much older than me. Yes, they made great films back then. It's amazing that Lloyd Bridges was fully dressed in an English tailored suit and gaberdine although he had just arrived from Hollywood. Back then English detectives were mannerly and spoke with upper middle class accents. Not like today when New Scotland Yard take anyone who walks in off the street. Although Lionel Blair almost fell over several times while twirling around, he was loved by the English who are were not anti-semitic like today. André Van Gyseghem was perfectly cast as the stage door keeper and the eponymous limping man. At the end, Alan Wheatley pronounced London just like someone from Hull making a change from the posh policeman. It was an inspiration to cast real-life siblings, Max and Louise Boisot as The Children although the speaking part of the theatre Boy was uncredited.
I was born in 48---and they were better times. We didn't have Biden craping his pants--raseing taxes --raseing food prices ---giving billions of dollars away to--while forgetting Americians.
What a great movie, emotionally intense in places, and some of Bridges' best acting work ever. Never knew this movie existed until I saw it here. Thanks for the upload.
Gimme break, I love these old movies too but to infer that Hollywood can't make movies like this is total BS, they don't make them because no one would watch them if they did, Old movies have great nostalgic value and you can't mass produce nostalgia, In 50 or 60 years from now young people of today will be old and saying the same thing about today's movies compared to the movies produced....in 50 or 60 years! No Doubt when this was made the old people were telling the young people how great Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were and how much better they were than the current stars....it's called Human Nature! Just sit back and enjoy what you love, don't compare them in quality to stuff you don't appreciate!
@@georgemoore7186 Nostalgia for a misty past is such a common sentiment that there should be a name for it. Show an old movie or a scene from the past and right on cue you will get cliches about "They don't make 'em like they used to" or maybe "People used to have pride in themselves" or something like similar. Of course these are all really commentaries about the present. The past is a mythical golden time that we can compare the dreary present to. But I would believe that the same folks, if transported back 50 years, would find those times equally dreary.
@@marcinna8553 memories are Golden but not always accurate, today is real but we leave a lot of memories on the cutting room floor from the past and just go with the memories that make us feel good, it is a time when we ourselves were better, not the movies themselves, when we are young and happy we tend to think everything in life is great, we like out music better, our movies better etc, and that is OK, just don't get sucked into thinking what we like better actually IS better, Old movies and old songs are akin to a time machine that transports us back, I love this era, I love old songs/music and movies(don't like the subliminal advertising in them but that's another story)
@@georgemoore7186 And the past is generally filtered and sanitized through people's selective memories and through movies and other stories we create about these times. I sometimes browse through the back pages of newspaper archives -- crime, poverty, injustice -- it can quickly disabuse you of the notion of a "simpler past" or an innocent one.
What an unexpected pleasure to see Lionel Blair here, as the dancer. And quite a coincidence-he died recently at 92, just a few days ago, on 4 Nov 21. An old school trouper, seemingly universally liked in showbiz, he was a dancer/choreographer who could also act, and was often on British TV screens in game shows, Christmas specials and so on, into his later years.
@@jean6872 He was married for 54 years with children and there has never been any scandal involving him, no one has ever come forward with any evidence.
Watching this reminded me of a couple of things. The first was seeing this leading man in a TV show as a kid. It was called Sea Hunt. The second was hearing of a little cockney kid in school who could not spell and was asked by his teacher to write his favourite TV show on the classroom blackboard. He wrote, C Unt.
Oh Dear Lord that's Jean Marsh at 8:04, in a non-speaking bit-part appearance as the landlady's kinda surly daughter...I bet it's one of her firsts, if not *the* first of her apperances in the movies. Awesome !
Thanks for uploading this. Brings back memories of younger years when our recollections of WWII and the deprivations and rationing were softening. It felt as though peace had really arrived.
This print is wobbly and sound-deficient in places, but a real film noir classic ... good story, actors, with some live stage entertainment mixed in. Great shots of the beautiful TWA Constellation. Thank you sallies65
Despite what it says in Wikipedia, this isn't a noir. Not every crime drama is a noir. The term, like 'kitchen sink', has become horribly devalued. It's just an interesting crime drama with notable London location shooting. FWIW, Cy Endfield was very interested in stage magicianship (perhaps he and Orson Welles discussed it when they met), so I can imagine the stage-show parts in this film got input from the director.
An enjoyable "B" mystery film. The best scene is near the end,.The expression on Bridges' face as he recognizes the man's face whose handing the magazine to him, that's acting. I was only 9 years old in 1953 and missed seeing this film. Thanks for posting the video.
An enjoyable "B" mystery film. The best scene was the near ending, where Bridges awakens and receives his magazine back, That second or two where his face was framed as he realized he's there, in his seat. after recognizing man's face who hands the magazine to him. That's first class acting. I never knew of this film, as i was only 9 yrs old in 1953, but already a film buff. Thanks for posting this video.
A film that starts with a shot of a beautiful plane like this Connie has GOT to be good, right? EDIT: Yeah, it did NOT disappoint, KMSL, didn't see THAT ending coming!
Its easy to follow. A very good film. Yes it was all a dream. But very well acted and played. The write made it that way. The writer knew exactly what they were doing. A fine film and worth watching. PC. 17.09.2017.
One of the most enjoyable vintage films. Alan Wheatley playing against type as a good guy and nice performance by Rachel Roberts (who would appear 20 years later in 'Murder on the Orient Express'). A real find. Thanks.
Let me be the first "Commenter" to attest to the film's suspense and mystery. The visual, audio, scenes, and acting were all noteworthy. But it was the plot that "takes the cake". No film that I have watched has had a plot like this one. And the ending is......well....it is very unusual. Thank you, sallis65, for making this most enjoyable movie available.
nothing to do with this movie really but I have noticed that English films and even tv shows(Foyles War, Midsomer Murders, GREAT STUFF, especially Foyle's War) the ONLY thing necessary is to change costumes and mode of transportation to shoot great stuff set in ANY time period. movies and shows that would require a 'set' to be shot in America but no sets were needed in the above, even though a 70 year difference in time periods. in both we get to see REAL England, from homes of the poor to grand estates, inside and out. hundreds of years old but still in use and the pubs.........
Your comment happened to be the top one, and although I had not intended on reading any of the comments before watching the movie, because I immediately saw the part about the dream I then of course realized how it would end. Consequently, I fast-forwarded to the last 3 minutes. Sure enough, you had revealed the plot, so there was no reason to watch Lloyd Bridges although I had greatly enjoyed watching Sea Hunt as a child. As a courtesy to others, when you write a comment such as yours you should start it with the phrase: "Spoiler Alert." The eye catches that and you know to look away.
Spoiler Alert. The polt and ending have been revealved in comments below in other peoples comments. So if you perfer not to know the ending before seeing it your self. Then I recommend you do not read comments below mine. Happy viewing.
Since when does Scotland yard reveal information about a murdeed man to a witnesss. Yes, we don't know his name. He had a passport. But it was a forgery. Says it like he is giving the weather or time.
A really good noir style picture starring Caesar Romero. Adapted from a great mystery novel called The Creaking Chair by Lawrence W Meynell, which is really a terrific read, going deep into the strange London underworld from the early 1940s
A World War II veteran returns to England after the war, only to discover that his wartime sweetheart has got involved with a dangerous spy ring. British Film Noir directed by Cy Endfield (as Charles de Lautour) and starring Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister and Leslie Phillips.
