That super fast split second edit on Pamela Brown is my favourite in the picture, but notice how well the Corrywrecken scene is edited also, particularly the way it mixes back projection and real footage and special effects. And the way studio Roger Livesey is mixed in with on location Robert Livesey double.
Editor John Seabourne also worked on second unit, for example some of the small boats stuff. Powell claims that ill health prevented him from working on any further P&P pictures, but as we know that didn't stop him from cutting later films such as The History of Mr Polly and the exceptional Rocking Horse Winner. His son John joined the team as assistant on AMOLAD.
Reviewed elsewhere. It's a glowing, opaque mysterious pearl of a film. According to Powell, its script was taught at Paramount as an example of a perfect piece of screenwriting.
Powell also claims that he made Pamela Brown deliver the line "Ye-es, but money isn't everything" 22 times and it ended up being the same as take 1.
That's Petula Clark as the young girl who 'knows everything'. And Nancy Price (The Stars Look Down) as the lady who loves the culture of the past.
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