本片被认为是Ealing Studios出品的非喜剧作品中最优秀的一部,以黑色电影的手法刻画了伦敦东区工人阶级的浮生一日,堪称是激进现实主义(kitchen-sink)作品的先驱。2008年,在纽约的英国黑色电影放映季上,本片获得了美国影评人的高度表彰,但是在此之前,本片一直鲜有人知,因此被认为是一部被忽视的1940年代英国电影杰作。《The Village Voice》夸赞本片是一部“描述‘...
Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous ...
A man (Young) comes round after a car accident, and realises that a perfect crime is now possible: any movie with this scene can't fail. From this halfway point, the anxious mood of this rare no...