HottWwjdIam
There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Yazmin
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
roy-78517
I watched this film when it was first released at my local cinema in Hackney. It was the first film that I had ever seen which showed an East End which I could recognise as the one I knew. All the characters were recognisable and true to life. One caveat thought, we see the husband having a hipbath in his kitchen (true to life), but I did wonder where all the hot water came from.certainly not from the tap!, Although I grew up in Hackney, within walking distance, all my immediate family came from there and, as I discovered later,many generations earlier too. Very much a Jewish East End too. This sounds like a cliche, but most of my best school friends were Jewish boys (NEVER jewboys which was pejorative ).
It was a delight to see it again, I must search around to find a good copy on DVD.
I lovely film which took me back seventy years or more to my boyhood.
malcolmgsw
I watched this dated melodrama last night.Whilst parts were of interest,quite frankly much of it was mundane and the dialogue was in no way related to what you would expect to hear in the East End.I should know as my late father and his family originally came from the East End.As a Jew I found that the dialogue ,particularly of Sidney Tafler was stereotypical and unlike anything I ever heard when I was young.No one spoke that way.I am surprised that Michael Balcon allowed the totally unrealistic dialogue into the script.Tafler seemed to be constantly shrugging his shoulderd and making actions with his hands.I cannot see any such scenes being shown in a film today thankfully.So in part I have to say I found this film to be an embarrassment of earlier attitudes.It is well produced but is unrepresentative of the East End that I saw in the late forties and early fifties.
lucy-66
Melodramatic (and that's a compliment), and Googie Withers iswonderful. Watch out for the buckets of fake rain falling only on theactors in a sunlit street, though. PS - in England it's usually theother way round.xxxx
MIKE WILSON
A superb study by Ealing studios, of a working class family, in the east end of London, after the 2nd World War. Googie Withers plays a harassed housewife, who during one Sunday lunchtime, discovers that her old boy friend, Tommy Swan, has broken out of jail and is in need of help.Local policeman Jack Warner is given the task of hunting him down. This film gives the viewer a fascinating look at life in England, in the late 1940's and early 50's. Look out for one scene, featuring the milkman, delivering milk, and his horse, walking up the centre of the street, and knowing just when to stop and when to go. Well worth watching.
