On the day of their release from prison, three women go their separate ways to find their destiny by nightfall.
Tidy melodrama with engaging characters in good performances. There's no hard edge, only sentimental misfortune for basically decent people - but I was concerned for each of them as the day progressed. The real jeopary comes in a vertigo-inducing chase scene worthy of Hitchcock.
What I loved about this was period London - damp and smoggy, where police cars chase to the scene of a crime with horns blaring rather than American style sirens, and the ambulance takes away the victims to the sound of a tinkling bell. Plus you get the feel that everyone was coming off the back of a hard war. Mind you, the underground looks and sounds exactly the same as it does today - just in black and white.
Another pleasure is in the way the camera lingers on the faces of onlookers, almost stand-ins for the audience ourselves. And the motif of keys as the means to freedom is solid yet subtle.
Overall: Nothing of significance, but an oddly comforting view of a lost world.
Tidy melodrama with engaging characters in good performances. There's no hard edge, only sentimental misfortune for basically decent people - but I was concerned for each of them as the day progressed. The real jeopary comes in a vertigo-inducing chase scene worthy of Hitchcock.
What I loved about this was period London - damp and smoggy, where police cars chase to the scene of a crime with horns blaring rather than American style sirens, and the ambulance takes away the victims to the sound of a tinkling bell. Plus you get the feel that everyone was coming off the back of a hard war. Mind you, the underground looks and sounds exactly the same as it does today - just in black and white.
Another pleasure is in the way the camera lingers on the faces of onlookers, almost stand-ins for the audience ourselves. And the motif of keys as the means to freedom is solid yet subtle.
Overall: Nothing of significance, but an oddly comforting view of a lost world.