HOME AT SEVEN is a film featuring a perennial favourite plot - the 'amnesia' storyline in which the protagonist arrives home only to discover that his missing memory coincides with robbery and murder. Is he himself responsible, or has he been set up? Sadly, this is a lesser outing for the genre, a studio-bound and dialogue-heavy story which is quite frankly boring for large swathes of the running time. Ralph Richardson as actor is fine, but Ralph Richardson as director is far less assured, failing to invest his picture with the necessary suspense to make it interesting. The supporting cast features typically strong performances from old-timer Michael Shepley alongside Jack Hawkins, but there's no getting around this film's long-windedness and the fact that the eventual solving of the mystery is all exposition.
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