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Daybreak
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A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
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Directed by Compton Bennett
Ann Todd
Eric Portman
Bill Owen
Maxwell Reed
Edward Rigby
Eliot Makeham
Jane Hylton
Margaret Withers
John Turnbull
Maurice Denham
Milton RosmerImages · 3
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CinemaSerfJul 9, 2022
I reckon this has to be the best outing for Ann Todd ("Frankie") that I've seen. Here she plays the girlfriend of Eric Portman ("Eddie") who is really a hangman, but who doesn't want her to know so pretends to be a salesman to explain his frequent, and often overnight, absences from their home on a barge he has inherited. It's during one of those absences that she finds herself the focus of the unwarranted attentions of the rather uncouth "Olaf" (Maxwell Reed) and... Compton… Read more
Bennett has created a clever piece of cinema here; we are given much of the bones of the story but have to come to a few of our own conclusions as tragedy ensues. According to the BBFC, the film wasn't cut at the time but it doesn't look like it - there are gaps that sort of make sense, but there are quite a few that clearly don't and that disjoints the narrative and occasionally spoils what is otherwise a complex tale. Well worth a gander.