Never Look Back

1952
1h 13m

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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 t... Read allA 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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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.

Quotes
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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5/10

So so courtroom drama

I was recently able to buy this obscurity online being always on the lookout for minor British movies, particularly of the fifties.

Rosamund John has recently been given silk which means in British legal jargon she is now a more senior barrister and entitled to add KC (King's Council) to her name. It would be QC nowadays.This is quite an honor for any lawyer.

At a celebratory party, her long time admirer Hugh Sinclair proposes yet again only to be rejected in favor of her career; shocking stuff for the early sixties. He takes her home still pleading his case but eventually leaves.

She starts playing some nostalgic music and lo and behold she hears piano music which she soon finds out is being played by an old flame who is returning his front door key. His current girlfriend has thrown him out so she allows him to stay the night on the sofa.He leaves the next morning.

He finds that his girlfriend has been murdered and he is the prime suspect so eventually the new KC agrees to defend him without telling anyone he spent the night with her-platonically.

At the trial her current suitor is the prosecutor.It's a fairly familiar story after that but at least it's a cast of pros who lend credibility to the movie. Worth watching if you get a chance to see it.