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.
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!
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.
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!!
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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'.
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!! 💙💙
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.
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!!!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 !
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
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'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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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!!!
Isn't it amazing what wonderful cars have been built in Britain, I could watch them all night. Furthermore I like these movies because of the civilized English that is spoken.
Their cars were and are, garbage. Jag-u-ars.....what's a jag-u-ar?! Is it like an ell-E-phant? All had hideously unreliable Lucas ignition or similar. Rolling garbage.
@@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 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).
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Voted: excellent atmospheric film! Wonderful to see roads before the advent of mass car ownership. Also people looking around for a phone to use; and high ranking police officers who looked like they meant business. . . . . ! Great stuff.
*FABULOUS* movie. Excellent acting. So nuanced. Great plot pacing and location shots. The logo was distracting at first but the actors and the story line pull you in to the picture and you're just gone. Thank you for uploading.
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.
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.
Amazing old British movie, all the more amazing for my not having seen or heard of it as I'm a fan of good old home-grown works. Nice clear print with Rank''s gongman whacking away from the outset. Truly authentic-looking and acted slice of post-war Britain as the world plunged headlong into the cold war, and well-intentioned people crossed the line of treason almost inadvertently. A host of great character actors led by excellent Andre Morell and Anthony (Major) Bushell, who played that acrimonious tag-team in the BBC's `Quatermass & the Pit' series. Love the outdoor views of 1950's London. One of those old hop-on-off buses still plies between St Paul's and Charing Cross Station. It has a lovely intimate ambience inside, especially during the evening when its quaint little tungsten-filament bulbs are lit; snug, like a doll's house compared to the modern monsters. Viewers grumbling about the logo need to get a life; it was a blindingly good movie and it was free. I mean to find the DVD if I can. Very many thanks for sharing it, Hannah.
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 . ..
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.
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!
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
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!!
The actors have proper English speaking
voices. What a joy to hear 😊.
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.
English moves are such a breath of fresh air.
Even more appropriate movie today than in 1951.
Thank you so much for posting.
How true. FROM ACROSS THE POND .
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.
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.
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
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?
Absolutely brilliant film, great acting and storyline. Wish they still made films like this nowadays. 👍
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?
Damn, we used to make good films. This is another gem I'd never heard of, many thanks for uploading.
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.
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...
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
Absolutely brilliant. Many, many thanks for posting such a gem!
This is a really great movie - from more than 70 years ago.
Thank you for uploading it.
I searched for an alternative and found this movie on MK Powelson’s channel :-). No aggravating logo on screen
Thanks, was driving me nuts
Excellent movie i love this era of black and white films thankyou
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!! 💙💙
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 😔
Wow Joan Hicksen ,Dora Bryan,Jean Anderson,Dandy Nicols all huge tv stars later on
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!!!
Wish they had paid for the ripping software
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!!!
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
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
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.
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.
I wasn't expecting much. Wow was I surprised. This is an excellent film from the writing, directing, location, design and acting.
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 !
Great film well done . Love the old films.
Yet again another winner . Thank you.🇬🇧❤️
Thank you from Manhattan ©2024
rarely seen British classic thank you for hosting
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
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 .
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?
Quite forgot about the logo due to the fact that this was a most enjoyable film, thank you for posting.
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!!!
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.
High Treason and high drama! From a time when British films were really good. Thank heavens it hasn't been "colourised! Thanks for sharing!
I really like this movie, this is my very favorite type of movie, black and white, great era, great dialogue
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!
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
Over a half million views. Thanks for the upload. I really enjoy the street scenes from these old films.
Can you make the logo bigger, it's awesome, surely it would fit right across the screen.
I love these old 50s movies, thanks for putting them on UA-cam.
Wonderful Art Deco interrior of Battersea Power Station before it was left to rot for twenty years.
Love these old English films , Joan Hickson , miss Marple 40 years later , just great
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.
Isn't it amazing what wonderful cars have been built in Britain, I could watch them all night.
Furthermore I like these movies because of the civilized English that is spoken.
Their cars were and are, garbage. Jag-u-ars.....what's a jag-u-ar?! Is it like an ell-E-phant? All had hideously unreliable Lucas ignition or similar. Rolling garbage.
@@mark-wn5ek But they can look wonderful sometimes.
That was excellent! I was on the edge of my seat, even though I knew it would be all right. Some great actors and some great acting.
High Treason Excellent superb on time, for those who've seen the light they won't tolerate the dark. Pray for democracy.
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.
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).
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.
Thoroughly wonderful British film. Thank you for posting. Love the British post WW2 films. Wonderful acting, script and direction.
Anyone remember when High Treason was a thing.
Definition redefined
What a wonderful movie....thank you uploader 👌👍
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.
What a nice surprise to find this on youtube. Thank you for sharing.
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.
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.
Very enjoyable film. The theme and pace of the script made it for me. Thank you for uploading
Wonderfully exciting and fast paced film with a great cast of players.
Great film, thank you.
Excellent! Thanks!
I LOVE THESE OLD BRITISH FLICKS . THANKS 4 POSTING !!!
Great film! I love how everything is so unemotional and matter of fact, even during the gun fight. Very British, what?
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.
Voted: excellent atmospheric film! Wonderful to see roads before the advent of mass car ownership. Also people looking around for a phone to use; and high ranking police officers who looked like they meant business. . . . . ! Great stuff.
Scoring with modern music and humorous tunes, fascinating.
A great movie. If we only had that patriotic spirit in England today, now it has gone the other way.
Thank you.
I imagine the composer enjoyed writing the various pieces given at the musical society's concerts.
*FABULOUS* movie. Excellent acting. So nuanced. Great plot pacing and location shots. The logo was distracting at first but the actors and the story line pull you in to the picture and you're just gone. Thank you for uploading.
@trilbywilby7826--- logo removal would still be best. Everyone likes a completely CLEAN full picture. Thank you.
What a beauty lots of suspense interesting and gripping plot and well drawn characters.
Thanks for uploading Hannah!
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.
One brilliant film with great acting and the Morse Signals were perfect and correct.
good plot . fine movie liked seeing old London again.
Wow!!! Joan Hickson aka Miss Marple is in this gem.
Pretty good movie, still relevant today
What a great film. Tight. I watched the whole film without any interruption. Thank you.
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.
Keep coming back to this film, thanks.
What an amazing cast list, many thanks.
Amazing cast indeed and so young especially Victor Maddern one of my favourite actors.
Excellent film , worth the watch .
Amazing old British movie, all the more amazing for my not having seen or heard of it as I'm a fan of good old home-grown works. Nice clear print with Rank''s gongman whacking away from the outset. Truly authentic-looking and acted slice of post-war Britain as the world plunged headlong into the cold war, and well-intentioned people crossed the line of treason almost inadvertently. A host of great character actors led by excellent Andre Morell and Anthony (Major) Bushell, who played that acrimonious tag-team in the BBC's `Quatermass & the Pit' series. Love the outdoor views of 1950's London. One of those old hop-on-off buses still plies between St Paul's and Charing Cross Station. It has a lovely intimate ambience inside, especially during the evening when its quaint little tungsten-filament bulbs are lit; snug, like a doll's house compared to the modern monsters. Viewers grumbling about the logo need to get a life; it was a blindingly good movie and it was free. I mean to find the DVD if I can. Very many thanks for sharing it, Hannah.
Ted thesailor here in England we call them films
Here in England "we" have sufficient freedom of speech to call them what "we" wish. What do "we" in England call tikka massala?
In Canada we usually say movie, but sometimes say film, and often just say show.
I do say old chap, this is really a great film. My favorite espionage movies are the Jean LeCarre films, this one stands alongside those.
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.
enjoyed muchly... visioned same thing happening ... somewhere... 70 years later...
I agree wholeheartedly
Well done. Why the Rank-era flms are my favorites.
excellent FILM REALLY ENJOYED IT SO MANY RECOGNISABLE FACES
Thank you for putting this on.
Joan Hickson 'Miss Marple' as mom. Aww yeah🥰
thoroughly enjoyed this well made classic. thank you for the upload. an ole south london boy here :)
A great role call of British actors. Much underestimated movie.
Great old classic movie!