What a wonderful actor Oskar Homolka was who plays the central role of an antiques dealer in a London shop who has a shady past and acts as a "fence" for stolen jewellery.(I first saw Oskar in "Sabotage" (1936) with Sylvia Sidney).However he dotes on his prodigiously musically gifted daughter, played by Muriel Pavlow, (see her later film playing Thelma Edwards who marries Douglas Bader in "Reach for the Sky" (1956) and her earlier film appearance in "Quiet Wedding" (1940).I had bought at the same time the DVD "Bond Street"(1948) and quite a few actors also appeared in this film such as Derek Farr, Kathleen Harrison, and Kenneth Griffith.The latter named actor I had only associated playing heroes like Jack Phillips, senior Marconi operator of the "Titanic", in "A Night to Remember"(1958).What a revelation to see Kenneth also playing cowardly, conniving, blackmailing parts in both "Bond Street" and "The Shop at Sly Corner".As I have stated in previous reviews such as "Love Story (1944), I love films with a classical music flavour/theme and here we have Muriel acting playing her solo violin recital of the beautiful, Felix Bartoly Mendelssohn's violin concerto.
In early post war films the British Board of Film Censors decreed that bad characters had to receive their comeuppance in the end but Oskar effectively plays an anti-hero who gradually wins our sympathy.So I will not provide a spoiler disclosing the denouement to this well acted film which I rated 7/10.
In early post war films the British Board of Film Censors decreed that bad characters had to receive their comeuppance in the end but Oskar effectively plays an anti-hero who gradually wins our sympathy.So I will not provide a spoiler disclosing the denouement to this well acted film which I rated 7/10.