The Long Memory (1952 Robert Hamer & co-scr)

John Mills emerges from prison after 12 years seeking revenge on the people who put him there - but in the end can't be bothered to exact it. Unusual drama (it isn't really a thriller) benefits from Kent / Gravesend locations / milieu and an uncharacteristically tough John Mills.

Good cast: John McCullum (Superintendent), Elizabeth Sellars, Eve Bergh, Geoffrey Keen (the journalist), Michael Martin Harvey (eccentric beach dweller), a marvellously oily John Chandos as the 'dead' man, John Slater, Thora Hird, Vida Hope, Harold Lang (rather good as Chandos' No. 2) and Reggie Perrin's Doc Morrissey John Horsley.

Photography Harry Waxman, music William Alwyn. Well directed by Hamer.