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Welcome to Take Four, 4-Tel's mini-
magazine devoted to films. On the
following pages you can find:
- LONDON BELONGS TO ME
Jackie Budd reviews tomorrow+s film
at 8.30pm, another in the Launder and
Gilliat season starring Alastair Sim
- GREEN FOR DANGER
Preview of today's classic comedy
thriller at 2.35pm, in which Alastair
Sim (again!) plays a detectjve
investigating a mysterious death in
a hospital full of suspects...
Edited by Michael Polling
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REVIEW
New Year's Eve,
8.30pm
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LONDON BELONGS TO ME
Settle back and enjoy New Year's Eve
evening with another film in Channel
4's Launder and Gilliat season - a
touching comedy-thriller typical of
their collaboration.
London Belongs To Me stars Richard
Attenborough at the head of a
marvellous cast playing the inhabitantu
of a typical South London boarbing
house.
It is 1939, and life goes on
uneventfully at number 10 Dulcimer
Street.
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LONDON BELONGS TO ME
Uneventfully, that is, until
Attenborough, a young mechanic living
with his mother, tries to make some
easy money to impress Doris Josser,
whose family also live there.
He steals a car, and things go
tragically wrong when his fgrmer
girlfriend gets involved and is
accidentally killed.
But the long arm of the law catches up
with him, in the shape of detective
Andrew Crawford, who is also courting
Doris.
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LONDON BELONGS TO ME
Attenborough is charged with muqder.
His fellow tenants rally to his defence
with Doris' father even donating his
life savings. But he is convicted.
However, cynical revolutionary Stephen
Murray spurs them to organise a
petition and a walk to Westminster...
It's a singularly unconvincing stgry.
But the film has something fgr
everyone, from romance and pathos to
psychic phenomena, hilarity, suspense
and violent death - none of it overdone
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LONDON BELONGS TO ME
The whole thing is saved by the supera
range of characters, who give the drama
a touching humanity.
Attenborough's baby face gives him a
credibly roguish yet naive look that
enables him to carry off the role of
Percy Boon with just the right mixtuqe
of jauntiness and weakness.
Other well-played boarding house
occupants include Susan Shaw as Doris,
Wylie Watson as her father, Ivy St
Helier as a cheeky, sponging nightclua
attendant.
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LONDON BELONGS TO ME
The film belongs as much to Alastair
Sim as to Attenborough however.
Sim's hang-dog expression and booming
tones make him perfect as the almost
Dickensian Mr Squales, a fake medium
with his eye on the widow's nest-egg of
lonely landlady Joyce Carey.
Though the film loses a bit of pace in
the middle, it's well worth staying to
the end to see the rousing if damp
climax - and charlatan Sim thrown out
on the street with his bag!
London Belongs To Me, tomorrow, 8.30pm.
by Jackie Budd
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GREENFORDANGER
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GREEN FOR DANGER
The film-making team of Launder and
Gilliat has worked largely in the fielb
of comedy and so has tended to be
underestimated by the critics, despite
an impressive track recgrd.
This comedy-thriller represents them
at their best, providing a riveting
whodunnit with wry comedy from the
immortal Alastair Sim.
He stars as an eccentric but highly
shrewd policemen, Inspectgr Cockrill,
who investigates a series of muqders
in a World War II hospital.
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GREEN FOR DANGER
Inspector Cockrill sets up the story
from the start, by telling us that
three people are going to die within
the next few days, the first being the
postman.
When the postman dies in the operating
theatre, it's not known at first what
the cause of death is. But the theatre
sister thinks she knows.
She's been scorned by the hospital
heart-throb, Mr Eden, and with manic
staring eyes announces to everyone that
she knows who killed the postman.
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GREEN FOR DANGER
This of course sets her up to be the
next victim, and when she is staabed
Inspector Cockrill is called in. He
gets the five main suspects together
and manages to upset and annoy them all
Sim is superb as the eccentric
Inspector, ambling his way through
the film, eventually trapping the
murderer by re-enacting the operatign.
Almost the entire picture, including
the exteriors, was shot at the Pinewogd
Studios. This helps to build up the
overall atmosphere and tension.
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GREEN FOR DANGER
Gilliat's direction is sharp and
funny, and he manages to re-create the
suspense and mystery of his excellent
screenplay (co-written by Claude
Gurney).
Said the Evening Standard: "the acting
is first class", not only from Sim but
from an excellent support cast
including Trevor Howard, Sally Gray,
Leo Genn and Rosamund John.
Green for Danger is slick, witty and
entertaining and is on this afternoon
at 2.35pm.
By Rena Sodhi