Yes, covered here. It's so well directed - it must have been on the strength of this that he got the Sweet Smell of Success gig. Everything just fits together so well, the smooth camera movements ('Chick' Waterson operating) that tell stories, the artful editing, the production design. Alec Guinness is marvellous as the leader of the gang. William Rose won the BAFTA (as did Katie Johnson) and was Oscar nominated. Rose came here in WWII as a volunteer and after the war stayed, taking his demob money to train as a writer and stayed until the 1960s. (And as he died in the Channel Islands, came back,)
Our Studio Canal DVD is rather fuzzy and surpassed easily by the 2020 restoration.
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