Scarlet Heaven (1949)
(Forbidden)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 93m
Director: George King
Cast: Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Kenneth Griffith, Patricia Burke
Synopsis:
A chemist, who has wound up peddling hair tonic on Blackpool's Golden Mile, falls for a girl on the confectionery stand, but keeps his marriage to his termagant, would-be actress wife a secret. However, he has a rival only too happy to stir up trouble.
Review:
Interesting romantic thriller, with elements of the spiv cycle of post-war films. The husband-wife characterisation is in many ways a mirror image: both hanker after better things and have seen better days; she, being a woman, has to prostitute herself with a theatrical producer, while he gets to court the fresh-faced Hazel. But then, he is such a good egg deep down, he even saves his nemesis from a death plunge during the inevitable climax atop the Blackpool Tower. While this little seen picture would have been even better, perhaps, if Montgomery had killed his wife (those extraordinary too-wholesome features bespeak a twisted nature so well), the atmosphere of economic desperation and moral slide after the war is superbly caught, and the locations are well used.
(Forbidden)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 93m
Director: George King
Cast: Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Kenneth Griffith, Patricia Burke
Synopsis:
A chemist, who has wound up peddling hair tonic on Blackpool's Golden Mile, falls for a girl on the confectionery stand, but keeps his marriage to his termagant, would-be actress wife a secret. However, he has a rival only too happy to stir up trouble.
Review:
Interesting romantic thriller, with elements of the spiv cycle of post-war films. The husband-wife characterisation is in many ways a mirror image: both hanker after better things and have seen better days; she, being a woman, has to prostitute herself with a theatrical producer, while he gets to court the fresh-faced Hazel. But then, he is such a good egg deep down, he even saves his nemesis from a death plunge during the inevitable climax atop the Blackpool Tower. While this little seen picture would have been even better, perhaps, if Montgomery had killed his wife (those extraordinary too-wholesome features bespeak a twisted nature so well), the atmosphere of economic desperation and moral slide after the war is superbly caught, and the locations are well used.
(Forbidden)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 93m
Director: George King
Cast: Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Kenneth Griffith, Patricia Burke
Synopsis:
A chemist, who has wound up peddling hair tonic on Blackpool's Golden Mile, falls for a girl on the confectionery stand, but keeps his marriage to his termagant, would-be actress wife a secret. However, he has a rival only too happy to stir up trouble.
Review:
Interesting romantic thriller, with elements of the spiv cycle of post-war films. The husband-wife characterisation is in many ways a mirror image: both hanker after better things and have seen better days; she, being a woman, has to prostitute herself with a theatrical producer, while he gets to court the fresh-faced Hazel. But then, he is such a good egg deep down, he even saves his nemesis from a death plunge during the inevitable climax atop the Blackpool Tower. While this little seen picture would have been even better, perhaps, if Montgomery had killed his wife (those extraordinary too-wholesome features bespeak a twisted nature so well), the atmosphere of economic desperation and moral slide after the war is superbly caught, and the locations are well used.