The Small Voice (1948)
(The Hideout)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 85m
Director: Fergus McDonell
Cast: Valerie Hobson, James Donald, Howard Keel
Synopsis:
A bitter playwright and his forbearing wife must reckon with three escaped soldiers from Dartmoor prison when their stolen car leaves the road near the couple's Welsh home.
Review:
The small voice in question is that of conscience, and in particular the conscience of the ringleader, whom the couple spend much of the film attempting to undermine. Early on they have a conversation about criminality, and whether it is out of choice or circumstance, and the real life experiment they are forced to undergo sees them applying very different means, the wife's more practical, the husband's more psychological. Predictably, it ends up bringing them back together. McDonell, who was primarily an editor, directs his first feature with some flair for camera angles and visual storytelling, and Keel (billed as 'Harold') also makes an impressive debut as the good egg gone bad. Donald and Hobson are the 'very English' husband and wife in this 'spiv cycle' entry that looks forward to the The Desperate Hours.
(The Hideout)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 85m
Director: Fergus McDonell
Cast: Valerie Hobson, James Donald, Howard Keel
Synopsis:
A bitter playwright and his forbearing wife must reckon with three escaped soldiers from Dartmoor prison when their stolen car leaves the road near the couple's Welsh home.
Review:
The small voice in question is that of conscience, and in particular the conscience of the ringleader, whom the couple spend much of the film attempting to undermine. Early on they have a conversation about criminality, and whether it is out of choice or circumstance, and the real life experiment they are forced to undergo sees them applying very different means, the wife's more practical, the husband's more psychological. Predictably, it ends up bringing them back together. McDonell, who was primarily an editor, directs his first feature with some flair for camera angles and visual storytelling, and Keel (billed as 'Harold') also makes an impressive debut as the good egg gone bad. Donald and Hobson are the 'very English' husband and wife in this 'spiv cycle' entry that looks forward to the The Desperate Hours.
(The Hideout)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 85m
Director: Fergus McDonell
Cast: Valerie Hobson, James Donald, Howard Keel
Synopsis:
A bitter playwright and his forbearing wife must reckon with three escaped soldiers from Dartmoor prison when their stolen car leaves the road near the couple's Welsh home.
Review:
The small voice in question is that of conscience, and in particular the conscience of the ringleader, whom the couple spend much of the film attempting to undermine. Early on they have a conversation about criminality, and whether it is out of choice or circumstance, and the real life experiment they are forced to undergo sees them applying very different means, the wife's more practical, the husband's more psychological. Predictably, it ends up bringing them back together. McDonell, who was primarily an editor, directs his first feature with some flair for camera angles and visual storytelling, and Keel (billed as 'Harold') also makes an impressive debut as the good egg gone bad. Donald and Hobson are the 'very English' husband and wife in this 'spiv cycle' entry that looks forward to the The Desperate Hours.