Never Look Back

1952
1 Std. 13 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA lawyer's ex-boyfriend seeks shelter after a fight with his girlfriend, who is later found murdered. Despite their night together, the lawyer defends him, concealing their secret, leading t... Alles lesenA lawyer's ex-boyfriend seeks shelter after a fight with his girlfriend, who is later found murdered. Despite their night together, the lawyer defends him, concealing their secret, leading to complications as the case unfolds.A lawyer's ex-boyfriend seeks shelter after a fight with his girlfriend, who is later found murdered. Despite their night together, the lawyer defends him, concealing their secret, leading to complications as the case unfolds.

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6,2/10

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In this court room drama, the judge is played by Bruce Belfrage and the accused is played by Guy Middleton.

In The Halfway House (1944), Guy Middleton hears the start of the BBC's nine o'clock news and hears, "Here is the news and this is Bruce Belfrage reading it", Middleton says, "Bruce Belfrage? I thought he was in the navy."

In real life Bruce Belfrage was an actor and a BBC newsreader, and in WW2 he joined the navy, but before that when he was still a newsreader, he gained fame after an incident at the BBC.

In 1940, the BBC's Broadcasting House was bombed. The bomb damaged several floors of the building and killed seven people. The bomb exploded while Bruce Belfrage was reading the nine o'clock news. He was covered in soot and plaster and carried on reading the news as if nothing had happened.

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Nigel Stewart: Anne, there's something I want to ask you.
Anne Maitland, K.C.: [apprehensively] Yes?
Nigel Stewart: Were you telling me the truth? The whole truth?
Anne Maitland, K.C.: About what?
Nigel Stewart: When you said no tonight, you weren't just being tactful. I mean, it isn't because of your career. Or is there someone else?
Anne Maitland, K.C.: Of course not.
Nigel Stewart: Very well, it must have been before I met you. When were you last in Italy?
Anne Maitland, K.C.: A long time before I met you.
Nigel Stewart: Did you stop in Portofino?
Anne Maitland, K.C.: Part of the time.

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6/10

Good Though Improbable Courtroom Drama

Rosamund John is a newly minted barrister, in love with Hugh Sinclair. Her old boyfriend, Guy Middleton turns up at her flat; he's quarreled with his live-in girlfriend and he needs a place to stay for the night. He gets the sofa. The next morning, the girlfriend turns up shot dead, and Middleton is to be tried for murder. Middleton and Miss John agree to keep quiet about their sleeping arrangement for propriety's sake, and she agrees to defend him, putting off a wedding with Sinclair in the process. However, a witness appears in the box, saying she saw him leaving his flat at the time of death. What can she do?

It's a pretty good courtroom drama, even if it seems rushed and impossible on its surface. Director Francis Searle had a hand in the script, and directs, as he so often did, for speed, allowing the excellent cast to carry the burden. The result is a good movie that is worth seeing once, although no one covers himself in glory. The problems with the script are those of most courtroom dramas; the work that should have been done before the trial has to be done at the trial, with surprise witnesses turning up for dramatic license.