Beatrice Marsden Movies
- 1949
Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character. Accused of a petty theft, North is expelled from Naval College. His father, retired bank official Sir Cedric Hardwycke, is prevented by existing British law to clear his son's name. He engages attorney Robert Donat, who successfully petitions for the right to sue the Admiralty and make this august organization prove its charges in court. Public opinion, however, is strongly against Hardwycke and his family: particularly effected is Hardwycke's daughter Margaret Leighton, whose fiance breaks off their engagement. For dramatic purposes, Margaret finds solace in a romantic relationship with barrister Donat. Terrence Rattigan worked on the cinemadaptation of his own play, which was later restaged on American television. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, (more)
- 1947
This stodgy adaptation of "The Haunted and the Haunters" by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton involves the paranormal investigations of a ghost-chasing psychic expert (Valentine Dyall), who relates a chilling tale to his peers about the resident specters inhabiting a young English couple's recently acquired home -- the very house in which they have met to swap tales of the macabre. It seems that the trio of poltergeists -- a sailor, his wife, and her murdered lover -- are still lurking about, and their ghastly secrets are revealed in a climax more inventive than the rest of the film. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
