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February 1944 (UK)
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A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious... full summary | add synopsis
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Mervyn Johns | ... | Rhys |
| Glynis Johns | ... | Gwyneth |
| Sally Ann Howes | ... | Joanna French |
| Richard Bird | ... | Richard French |
| Valerie White | ... | Jill French |
| Françoise Rosay | ... | Alice Meadows |
| Tom Walls | ... | Captain Harry Meadows |
| Guy Middleton | ... | Captain Fortescue |
| Alfred Drayton | ... | William Oakley |
| Esmond Knight | ... | David Davies |
| Philippa Hiatt | ... | Margaret |
| Pat McGrath | ... | Terence |
| John Boxer | ... | John, Davies' doctor |
| Roland Pertwee | ... | Prison governor |
| Eliot Makeham | ... | George, Davies' valet |
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95 min
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A random group of characters go to the Halfway House in Wales to get away from the pressures of their daily lives. The innkeeper Rhys (Mervyn Johns) and his daughter Gwyneth (Glynis Johns) are on hand to greet the guests and give them advice. However, they don't seem to have reflections, they don't have shadows and they are living 1 year in the past - the calendar, the newspapers and radio broadcasts are out of date and the guest book hasn't been signed for a year. Who are the mysterious owners and what fate awaits the guests....? The acting from some of the cast seems a bit stiff at times but the film keeps you watching. I like the more touching scenes, for instance, when Glynis Johns talks to the conductor David Davies (Esmond Knight) in the kitchen and tells him to come over to her "side", and the moment when they agree to see each other the next morning, knowing the fate of the inn. Captain Harry Meadows (Tom Walls) also has an impressive character transformation through the course of the film. It is a film with a mixture of strange incidents and it has a good ending. "Yea though I walk through the valley of death..........." Good stuff.