Silent Snow 4*
40 King High 3*
43 The Wedding Veil 3*
46 Second Wind 8*
48 International Settlement 5*
60 The Awakening 5*
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62 Pattern for Glory 3*
63 A Line in the Snow 5*
65 Dream Stuff 2*
72 The Relative Truth 5*
73 The Lovely Place 2*
78 Border Incident 2*
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82 Counterfeit 2*
90 The Thoroughbred 4*
93 Little Big Shot 4*
100 Enchanted Doll 6*
107 Atlantic Night 4*
133 Story of Pan Yusef 2*
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134 A Train to the Sea 5*
137 The Way Home 5*
138 Mister Purley's Profession 8*
140 Beloved Stranger 4*
145 Last Tour 4*
154 The Ludlow Affair 6*
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Note These are on 16mm film: #34, #63, #72
With directors of the calibre of Terence Fisher, Charles Saunders and John Gilling,
this is not a series that can be ignored.
With stars of the reputation of Buster Keaton, Diana Dors, Fay Compton, Mandy Miller, Bobby Howes, Googie Withers and Honor Blackman etc etc, this series deserves more careful scrutiny than it has hitherto received.
Picture: Two famous faces in #148 Crown of the Andes
A contemporary review by Eric Johns of a story I have not seen:
147 One Can't Help Feeling Sorry
Fairbanks played an ex-public enemy deported from USA, now living in a picturesque Alpine village, something of a tourist attraction. He "brought the right degree of showy temperament to the part of the man who is reported to have fantastic notions and not to be in his right mind. When an American newspaper woman (Lois Maxwell) comes in search of a story, she has to decide whether the exile is really the former gangster or a stand-by who has been paid $20,000... The secret was well kept until the final fade-out."
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Silent Snow
The setting is a lonely Canadian mountain shack.
Harriet is the main character, she is longing to get away with Steve who has come between her and Jeb.
She is waiting, waiting for Steve to return through the snow to take her away. As the storm grows wilder, she sits there alone. A tap drips.
A door creaks. At midnight she despairs of his coming and retires to bed.
The story has all the hallmarks of an early Armchair Theatre as she listens for Steve's return, "Steve is coming, relax." She talks to hersef, and next morning listens to the news on the radio. It's bad news, as the announcer tells of Steve's death in a road accident. It takes Harriet over the Armchair top, especially as she realises that "nobody knows I'm here."
"You're trapped," her inner voice explains to her other self. At the kitchen sink- where else?-
the dripping tap drives her wild. "Keep calm," she attempts to compose herself, and she gathers positive thoughts, yes she could even survive here until next spring. But that thought of being so long incarcerated here serves to remind her that it was just that very loneliness that she had been seeking to escape from.
And so her introspection goes on. Jeb is soon to return. She smartens herself up for him, "my great big beautiful doll." But she knows she's kidding herself and by the time Jeb does rescue her she's delirious.
This is no great acting triumph, which is perhaps what author Derry Quinn was aiming for, but Ingeborg Wells as Harriet gives an adequate performance, quite moving at times, but never, one feels, quite the
gut wrenching angst for which the author had been striving
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