Producer Anatole de Grunwald evidently saw post-war Britain - with its crime, spivs and fallout from wartime romances - ripe for a portmanteau film in the style of Duvivier's 'Un Carnet de Bal' for his first solo production.
Unfortunately Duvivier himself wasn't around to direct this time, and despite input from Terence Rattigan and the presence of Roland Young it's all rather bland; apart from the tragic episode with Derek Farr & Jean Kent, enhanced by Otto Heller's photography and a harp score by Benjamin Frankel that anticipates Bernard Herrmann's for 'Vertigo' ten years later.
Unfortunately Duvivier himself wasn't around to direct this time, and despite input from Terence Rattigan and the presence of Roland Young it's all rather bland; apart from the tragic episode with Derek Farr & Jean Kent, enhanced by Otto Heller's photography and a harp score by Benjamin Frankel that anticipates Bernard Herrmann's for 'Vertigo' ten years later.