NEVER LOOK BACK
(Exclusive Films) \ JE return safely to a familiar emotional climate in Never Look Back, a film about a desiccated male (Guy Middleton) and a noble female (Rosamund John). Actually there’s a noble male (Hugh Sinclair) as well who makes possible a last-minute blissful embrace. Not that this film is all that bad as films go. It’s undistin-
guished and rather improbable,. but made, I think, with sincerity, by Francis Searle. Miss John is a new K.C. whose past in the form of Mr. Middleton turns up just as she is looking back. Mr. Sinclair is the other man, also a lawyer. A woman is found shot, Mr. Middleton is charged, and there’s a trial. After a lifeless opening, the film managed to get me interested and I stayed so till I choked on that happy ending. The scene between the K.C. and her past incarnate at her flat is well done, parts of the trial develop’ tthe required tension, and there is quite adequate playing by Miss John and Mr. | Middleton in particular. Among others in the cast ate Terence Longdon, who was here with the Stratford-upon-Avon Company,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 800, 19 November 1954, Page 17
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191NEVER LOOK BACK New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 800, 19 November 1954, Page 17
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