kelp

I recall seeing this on a wet afternoon many years ago. I remember it as a pacey thriller, with an actor I never really embraced, BUT! he was really excellent as the blind man that overhears an assasination plot in a London pub. Van Johnson was the lead, and that brilliant Irish actor Liam Redmond was a villain. The tense ending whith all the lights out....super stuff.
Anyone remember this British film.

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codsall

One of mine too - great atmosphere! Filmed on location in London. Usually suffers by being shown in pan and scan on TV rather than in widescreen.

Merton Park

Excellent film, remember it as a boy. Never used to be able to recall the title, then along came the Internet to act as my other memory and all was recalled. Saw it again on TV not that long ago, still a good film.

I also liked Van Johnson in another great English film, The End of the Affair, it was set just around the corner from where I lived.

Bilmo

I only saw the film relatively recently, but it's one that I can watch over again. The plot is good; it isn't full of all this "lovey dovey" stuff - there's no snogging just as the hero and his girl are about to be crushed to death, by something coming at such a speed that a snog is really out of the question!

Cecil Parker, as usual, plays his part convincingly and it is good to see views of London before it was completely ruined.

I particularly like the scene when the blind man is lead to a bombed building; very scary. However, the only thing I find a bit disconcerting, is the amount of very American riverboat sounding fog horns on the Thames. I'm sure there were never that many!