Review of Nightbeat

Nightbeat (1947)
9/10
Interesting British noir
26 December 2019
Two soldiers coming home from the war both join up in the police force, while the sister of one of them is the other's sweetheart. But during the war that sister (Anne Crawford) has started working with a night club owner and got an apartment from him, and he wants to marry her. Her father is a policeman, and when her soldier friend joins the police force she leaves him to eventually marry the night club owner. Her brother gets sacked from the police and starts working for the night club. Another girl (Christine Norden, a blonde,) gets mixed up with Felix the night club owner, and when he finally marries Anne Crawford, the blonde gets furious. Complications follow and run wild. It's a fascinating story of ex-soldiers finding an ordered existence after the war, one succeeding, the other failing, but eventually after the ultimate complication of a murder they and the sister find each other again. It's not a great film, there are no great film stars, the acting is mediocre, but the story and the intriguing environment with its many plots make ineed the film worth watching.
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