Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Maddyclassicfilms The Long Memory is directed by Robert Hamer, is based on the novel by Howard Clewes and stars John Mills, Geoffrey Keen, Elizabeth Sellars, John Slater, Eva Bergh and John McCallum.Davidson (John Mills) goes aboard a boat to ask his girlfriends father if he can marry her. Criminal associates of her father are also aboard and when a fight breaks out one of the gang is killed. Davidson is wrongly accused of the crime by his girlfriend and her father so they don't incriminate the man actually responsible.Wrongly convicted and sent to prison Davidson dreams of getting revenge. When he gets out he goes looking for those who accused him. His girlfriend (Elizabeth Sellars) is now married to a Police Inspector (John McCallum). An eager journalist called Craig (Geoffrey Keen)believes Davidson when he says he is innocent and he follows him as he goes after those who were on the boat that night.The film is interesting too for the viewer because part of you want's Davidson to dish out some revenge but at the same time you don't want him to, if he does he will end up back in prison again or worse receive the death penalty. Mills is excellent as an ordinary, decent man who's life is turned upside down and because of that becomes embittered and obsessed. It's a rare dark role for Mills and he is brilliant, it's a shame he was never able to play more characters like this. He really lets us see the rage this man has lurking just beneath the surface and lets you see how driven he is to get revenge.The ever wonderful Keen is a treat as the journalist who knows he's on to a good story and also believes in Davidson's innocence.Eva Bergh is excellent as a young waitress at a café who befriends Davidson and ends up falling in love with him, their scenes together are very tender and Mills does a good job of showing he is coming to care for her but doesn't want to risk trusting her again after the way his girlfriend treated him. You want this pair to get together and you hope all will work out well for them.Sellars is good as the woman who only cares about herself and doesn't realise until much later just what her accusations cost Davidson.This is a very good thriller and I love it's use of grimy and stark real locations. Strong performances and a gripping story make this well worth a watch.

r-d-marchant The more one watches this film, the more inconsistencies reveal themselves. These do not detract from the overall intensity of the drama unfolding before your eyes ; one is almost a voyeur in a dingy world that hopefully doesn't exist anymore..... or does it? That's for the voyeur to contemplate or despair of. Those who know this area of the Kent coast in England will identify the Chetney Marshes on the Medway Estuary as the prime location ; as bleak a location as you can get - mud flats as far as the eye can see. However, as the tide come in, the scene changes dramatically as the boats come in to harbour along the coastline. The other location in Gravesend, Kent is no longer there, but part of Queen Street still exists (for the time being). The church so prominently displayed is St. Andrews on the waterfront and is now open to visitors as an Arts Centre. One annoying blooper is the Inspector at the end who forgets to negate the possession of a gun licence that the old scavenger hasn't got after having just shot the villain! Yet another blooper is the exodus from Waterloo at the start of the film, when in fact they should be boarding the train to Gravesend! Still, I am a man of Kent, I know these things. Don't let any of these points deter you from watching the best of British. It's a great film.

ianlouisiana Clearly Mr John Mills either was not aware of that piece of Eastern wisdom or he chose to ignore it.In view of his incarceration for 12 years for a murder he did not commit he would be less than human if he did not at least contemplate bloody vengeance against those who conspired to put him away.In this brilliant little Hitchcockian noir director Mr Robert Hamer makes full use of the wind - scoured mudbanks of the Thames Estuary and peoples them with an almost Dickensian selection of semi - grotesques living in barges,wooden huts and railway carriages on the riverside scrubland. Mr Mills,having fallen on hard times,lives in a timber shack conveniently close to a ramshackle cafe occupied by more sinister characters than you could shake a stick at. His former girl - friend - one of his persecutors - has now married the senior police officer involved in his case and ,by contrast lives a life of almost sybaritic luxury in a big 1930s villa.She and her husband are determinedly middle - class and have a little boy who wears a quartered school cap.They use linen napkins with silver rings for breakfast.She is played by Miss Elizabeth Sellars in typical "1950s repressed English Housewife" mode with plenty of clutching hands and pleading glances.Her husband,Mr John Mcallum,is that almost extinct movie species a detective with a conscience.He runs his hands round his jaw in moments of great emotion,but he doesn't have those too often. Mr John Slater and Miss Thora Hird provide some amusement as an ill - matched couple but the film is mainly a triumph for Mr Mills,whether stalking the mean streets of Gravesend or bearding the villain in his den at the Pool of London.Incidentally,watch out for the great Mr Harold Lang making the most of a small part as viciously camp blond-rinsed minder at the bad guy's HQ. The Thameside chase is reminiscent of M.Jules Dassin's largely forgotten "Night and the City",but the overall feel is most definitely that of Mr. Hitchcock.I doubt if Mr Hamer was consciously constructing a "hommage", but The Master's imprint can be seen in many of the exteriors and in the relationship between the detective and his wife. Mr Mills has one exquisite faux pas near the end.Up till then his character has been resolutely genteel,but,as he lies bleeding from a bullet wound,the detective asks how he is."It's only me arm",he grits, reverting in extremis to the Lower Deck. "The Long Memory" deserves a place alongside "The Blue Lamp" and "It always rains on Sundays" in the pantheon of British noirs which,with the passing of time,are being recognised as the seminal works that have hugely influenced the TV and movie industry in the second half of the 20th century and beyond.

Neil-117 Crime, punishment, revenge, love and redemption are the big themes of this short movie. The moral bleakness surrounding John Mills, as a man unjustly jailed and now seeking revenge, is reflected in the powerfully stark black and white landscape images which accompany the action. But the issues are far from black and white - the guilty, the innocent and even the investigating policeman are all caught up in the moral dilemmas explored by this clever and thoughtful script. Ultimately all the characters learn that punishment can take many forms, in a conclusion which is both gripping and surprising.It's not light entertainment, but don't be put off by its serious tone and gritty subject matter. Once seen, this movie will live long in your memory.