Tall Headlines details
| Format: | 12 DVD |
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| Starring: | Andre Morell, Jane Hylton, Flora Robson, Michael Denison |
| Director: | Terence Young |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | ODEON ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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Tall Headlines |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 15 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 17 Nov 2008 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Interesting
By FrankIV (506 reviews) from Cirencester, England , 26 Mar 2009[Highly rated reviewer]
In some ways, this is a solid example of British film-making in the period between the end of the Second World War and the New Wave of the early 1960s, which means that, despite the use of the occasional flashback and montage sequence, it's generally stagey rather than cinematic. The casting, however, is odd: Andre Morell and Dame Flora Robson are fine, but it's difficult to accept Mai Zetterling as a character named Doris with dialogue of the 'I'm a good girl I am' variety, and although Michael Denison does well in the lead, his cravats and cut-glass accent are at odds with the lower middle class world his character is supposed to inhabit. The plot is an interesting variation: instead of looking at the effect of a murder on the victim's family, which is quite commonplace, this looks at the effect of a state execution on the family of a murderer. After about three quarters of an hour, however, it loses its way and veers into melodrama, and it's difficult for a modern viewer - at least this one - to stomach the appalling snobbery and prejudice of various sorts which the film, being of its period, takes for granted. All in all, though, it's an interesting revival.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(2)Coping with family shame
By itstinks (681 reviews) from North of Reading , 14 Dec 2012A family find out that their eldest son is killer and is hanged, worrying about local gossip and sightseers they move away and change their name. How they cope with the shame they feel is the main story with the added twist is the younger son is beginning to crack up and may be a danger. Reasonably well made for its time if slightly melodramatic especially the sisters OTT behaviour but still intersting to see what was the idea of accepted behaviour then compared to what happens now.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Interesting
By FrankIV (506 reviews) from Cirencester, England , 26 Mar 2009In some ways, this is a solid example of British film-making in the period between the end of the Second World War and the New Wave of the early 1960s, which means that, despite the use of the occasional flashback and montage sequence, it's generally stagey rather than cinematic. The casting, however, is odd: Andre Morell and Dame Flora Robson are fine, but it's difficult to accept Mai Zetterling as a character named Doris with dialogue of the 'I'm a good girl I am' variety, and although Michael Denison does well in the lead, his cravats and cut-glass accent are at odds with the lower middle class world his character is supposed to inhabit. The plot is an interesting variation: instead of looking at the effect of a murder on the victim's family, which is quite commonplace, this looks at the effect of a state execution on the family of a murderer. After about three quarters of an hour, however, it loses its way and veers into melodrama, and it's difficult for a modern viewer - at least this one - to stomach the appalling snobbery and prejudice of various sorts which the film, being of its period, takes for granted. All in all, though, it's an interesting revival.- Was this review helpful to you?
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