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BASIL DEARDEN The Halfway House UK Official DVD (1944)
Header Photo: Detail from cover of Dvd release.
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2016: Forever Ealing Book Reviewed, Photos & In Stock
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Actors: Francoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Alfred Drayton
MOVIE REVIEW
Ealing's first foray into the occult, with a curious story about a bunch of travellers staying at an inn that was bombed out of existence a year earlier. Through contact with the strange landlord and his daughter, each makes some personal readjustment and goes away a changed person. There was a short-lived vogue for this kind of thing, probaly started by J.B. Priestley.
INFO. FROM EALING FOREVER BOOK
Opened in the UK in April 1944.
Francoise Rosay was at the time the grande dame of the French cinema. She was in enforced English exile because of the war. She would also appear in Ealing's Johnny Frenchman.
Glynis Johns is the landlord's daughter who casts no shadow.
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I'll start it off:
I put no trust in mile stones
Boy this is a strange film. The setting at a remote country inn in Wales lends the film an ethereal qualty but there is an indefinable strangeness in the atmosphere which starts and ends with the inn. The build up before is standard fare from British cinema of the 1940s - what comes after is a riveting view of the space in-between, the corridor between life & death, the hallway seperating the here and the there. Otherness. Haunting otherness.
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Condition: New. 2016: I've got a handful in as I want to try and sell as many of this wonderful Dvd as possible and have priced it as low as I possibly can so more people can enjoy it.
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