The Halfway House

1944
1h 35min

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Un grupo de viajeros, todos con algo para esconder en su pasado, se refugian de una tormenta en una antigua posada. El posadero parece un poco misterioso...Un grupo de viajeros, todos con algo para esconder en su pasado, se refugian de una tormenta en una antigua posada. El posadero parece un poco misterioso...Un grupo de viajeros, todos con algo para esconder en su pasado, se refugian de una tormenta en una antigua posada. El posadero parece un poco misterioso...

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Curiosidades
Although it is nominally based on the unsuccessful 1940 play "The Peaceful Inn" (which makes no mention of World War II), this film is chiefly inspired by a real incident of the war which had attracted some attention at the time. The Welsh village of Cwmbach had only one bomb dropped on it by the Luftwaffe during the entire course of the war; it fell on a local inn and killed the landlord and his daughter (no-one else). It has never been satisfactorily explained why this incident should have occurred. It had not been part of an air raid; there were none in this remote rural area.

Pifias
The action takes place on 21 June 1943 exactly one year after the inn was destroyed on the same day Tobruk fell. The calendar in the ghostly inn shows 21 June 1942 as a Thursday. In fact 21 June 1942 was a Sunday.

Créditos adicionales
Opening credits prologue: CARDIFF

Conexiones
Remade as The Peaceful Inn (1957)

Banda sonora
Die Zauberflöte
("The Magic Flute")(uncredited)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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7/10

Ship not sheep

A random group of characters go to the Halfway House in Wales to get away from the pressures of their daily lives. The innkeeper Mervyn Johns (Rhys) and his daughter Glynis Johns (Gwyneth) are on hand to greet the guests and give them advice. However, they don't seem to have reflections, they don't have shadows and they are living 1 year in the past - the calendar, the newspapers and radio broadcasts are out of date and the guest book hasn't been signed for a year. Who are the mysterious owners and what fate awaits the guests....?

The acting from some of the cast seems a bit stiff at times but the film keeps you watching. I like the more touching scenes, for instance, when Glynis Johns talks to the conductor Esmond Knight (David Davies) in the kitchen and tells him to come over to her "side", and the moment when they agree to see each other the next morning, knowing the fate of the inn. Captain Tom Walls (Harry Meadows) also has an impressive character transformation through the course of the film. It is a film with a mixture of strange incidents and it has, I think, an ambiguous ending. After several views, I think I get what happens."Yea though I walk through the valley of death..........."