I really wanted to like this film given its postwar London setting and stellar acting talent. However it was so dull and even cringeworthy in a number of places that the people I was watching it with looked at each other in disbelief. RR plays a bank worker with a terrible secret and a strange penchant for going to the pub every evening after work without informing his wife. JH plays a fairly dull GP with very little to say or do. It's patently obvious that the casting director cast the roles the wrong way around. Both actors would have been much better suited to playing the other role. It's still worth a watch but only if you are a fan of low profile b&w British films of this period, like me. The musical soundtrack by Malcolm Arnold is great in places.
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