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L eft : Wendy Hiller, Nancy Price and Roger Livesey in "I Know Where I'm Going." Harry Fowler and Douglas Barr, leaders of the " Blood and Thunder Boys," with Alastair Sim as the timid author in “ Hue and Cry." and directed by its star, Laurence Olivier. It was a nlm memorable for many qualities, among them the brilliance and originality of its settings, many of them clearly inspired by and cleverly adapt^ from the paint- ings of the period—the quaintly stylised settings of the walled garden of the French Princess, the towers and turrets of mediaeval Southampton, the ships in which the English force sailed. Do you remember, then, how this style was forsaken, with the result that the full force and vigour of the Battle of Agincourt became doubly effective? The dignity and truth of the words, the nobility of the English language were given sincerity and fine feeling by the experienced cast, from Henry V himself, played by Laurence Olivier, down to the simple soldier thinking things over on the eve of the battle. The soldiers in it were as real as the soldiers in The Way Ahead, in fact with the alteration that five centuries have made in the meaning of words and phrasing of speech, they could very well have been those very soldiers, so very little does human nature alter. David Niven was sp>ecially released from the Army to star in this film, a story of a group of soldiers whom we first see as a bunch of assorted conscripts, licked into shape by a sergeant whose opinion of them, that they’re not a bad lot, seems to be unduly optimistic, until they face their first battle in North Africa. Stanley Holloway, who had not long embarked on a career as a character actor rather than a comedian, gave a grand performance as a resentful, lazy soldier who was always asking for trouble from the sergeant and having got it, promptly groused about being "picked on.” A film which tried sincerely to give both sides of a problem that was one of the sorest wounds in England between the two World Wars was The Shipbuilders. It showed clearly the pride in achievement and thought for his men of a ship>owner who finds that through no fault of his own he is forced to close down his yards, and sell the business he has so proudly built up with honesty and integrity, as well as the view of the men who, also through no fault of their own, are thrown out of work. The Halfway House was an exploration into the supernatural, made by the Ealing Studios. Its setting was a small country hotel, where we found an assortment of people who, it seemed, had reached a point in their lives at which life no longer held enough to make them want to live. How they all found there the courage and peace they sought, with the aid of the ghostly innkeeper and his daughter who had perished when the inn was destroyed by fire a year before, made enthralling entertainment. This film marked the British debut of the celebrated French actress, Francoise Rosay. The same year, also at Denham, was made a James Mason and Kathleen Ryan in "Odd Man Out." Michael Redgrave, Richard Atterd)orough and Joan Greenwood in " The Man Within.”