The Halfway House (1944)
The British Half-Way House is from the Thunder Rock and Outward Bound school of Divine Intervention films. A group of travellers, all of whom have reason to regret the actions of the past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. There's something eerie about the place and its owner (Mervyn Johns)...something that indicates the guests aren't quite operating in their own time anymore. It develops that the inn really doesn't exist anymore; it had been destroyed by a bomb a year earlier. By staying in this half-way house, the guests all have a chance to rectify the errors that they've made in their own lives during the past year. Half-Way House was adapted from a play by Dennis Ogden. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, (more)
- Director(s):
- Basil Dearden
Synopsis of The Halfway House
The British Half-Way House is from the Thunder Rock and Outward Bound school of Divine Intervention films. A group of travellers, all of whom have reason to regret the actions of the past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. There's something eerie about the place and its owner (Mervyn Johns)...something that indicates the guests aren't quite operating in their own time anymore. It develops that the inn really doesn't exist anymore; it had been destroyed by a bomb a year earlier. By staying in this half-way house, the guests all have a chance to rectify the errors that they've made in their own lives during the past year. Half-Way House was adapted from a play by Dennis Ogden. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Halfway House
- Françoise Rosay - Alice Meadows
- Mervyn Johns - Rhys
- Glynis Johns - Gwyneth
- Valerie White - Jill French
- C.V. France - Solicitor
- Eliot Makeham - The Dresser
- Pat McGrath - Terence
- Guy Middleton - Fortescue
- John Boxer - The Doctor
- Rachel Thomas - The Landlady
- Tom Walls - Capt. Harry Meadows
- Esmond Knight - David Davies
- Alfred Drayton - Oakley
- Joss Ambler - Pinsent
- Sally Ann Howes - Joanna French
- Jack Jones
- Philippa Hiatt - Margaret
- Richard Bird - Squadron Leader French
- Roland Pertwee - Prison Governor
- Director(s):
- Basil Dearden
- Writer(s):
- Diana Morgan, Angus MacPhail, T.E.B. Clarke
- Producer(s):
- Michael Balcon
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