Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

zharpe Have just caught the end of this film, where the DAM breaks up. For a film made in 1957, this action is top notch and realistic. The stuntmen sure earned their money that day! Can't answer for the rest of the film. Brian. Also saw it on Talking Pictures, a DAMN fine channel for lovers of old films, especially black and white. As I heard someone observe, today's main stream channels do not show B & W films, so the modern generation miss out on the gems of yesterday, of which there are many and various, of all genres. Some of which are underrated. such as Conspiracy of Hearts.

ianlouisiana In the 1950s - in stark contrast to today - people were queueing up to leave Britain.Fed up with post -war austerity,rationing,low wages,class distinction and crap weather hundreds of thousands opted for healthier,more prosperous climes.Many became" £10 Poms ",taking an assisted passage to Australia,I barely escaped that fate myself,my father - an electrical engineer - being offered a promotion and a move to the south coast a few months before we would have sailed.Others made for other former colonies that offered a fresh start,Canada being the most popular alternative destination.To any waverers amongst them,the magnificent setting of "Campbells Kingdom" might well have acted as the clincher.The actors,the plot,the script,all are secondary to the majestic great outdoors that dominates the film.It is a "Kingdom" indeed fit for a king. Taken from a Hammond Innes novel,the film tells the story of a dying man who goes to Canada to claim his inheritance,but of course he's Dirk Bogarde and he isn't really dying at all but he does get to show his 3/4 profile a lot and look rather archly at the camera because this was before we discovered he could act and we were quite happy for him to put a cigarette in his elegant mouth and smoulder. Stanley Baker is,unsurprisingly,the bad guy,and he has thin lips and sneers at Dirk rather unpleasantly.He and several other members of the cast all make courageous but ill - advised attempts at the Canadian accent.I wish they hadn't - but there it is. I enjoyed this in 1958,smoking my "Gitanes"(pretentious - moi?) and blowing bubbles down the straw of my "Kia - Ora" in my innocent uncritical way,but after half a century of determined movie - going it now looks like little more than a travelogue plagued by some pretty appalling acting. Its always a pleasure to watch the young Mr Bogarde valiantly trying to express real emotion but falling short of the mark and he does it a lot here.But,bless him,he kept at it and eventually got it right a few years later in "Victim".But,as I ground the stub of my "Gitane" into the carpet and dropped my empty "Kia - Ora " under the seat,I just wanted him to punch Stanley Baker..

hogan-pj This film scores best in it's fine sense of location, which is to be applauded as the post war industry made the effort to escape from Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.Where it falls down is the residual ambiance, among the actors, that they are still in 'Titfield Thunderbolt' country.(OK. So that was filmed in Somerset). Nice in light comedy, Bogarde never really convinced in action roles and though Baker may have convinced some (Himself maybe) that he was tough, one feels that a Broderick Crawford or Richard Boone, possibly even James Mason, (if thinly sliced) would have eaten them both on toast, . Watch for the 'two shot' when Bogarde confronts Baker in the saloon and the bottle of 'Canada Club' whisky on the table jumps on and off its tray.

chedward I agree there are many good , bad or indifferent movies but the point is surely , for movie collectors / fans is the enjoyment of the film by the individual. Brit movies never cost anything like the cost of other countries movies to make so the results of this movie are pretty fair for it's production costs. It's also a very clean movie ( language wise) and the story was by a very good writer. I read the book years before I saw the film and the film lived up to the original story concepts. For me it is a great pity that such Brit movies do not receive more attention from restorers and DVD producers. ( It's one I would certainly buy for my movie collection if it were available )