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Earl St. John. Bill Kirby. Hugh Stewart. William Alwyn. Howard Clewes. Frank Harvey. Robert Hamer. An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
The Long Memory is typical of the run-of-the-mill British film noir of its era. The film is interesting because it features John Mills, a popular actor at the time, in very atypical role, the unkempt anti-hero. Mills was far better known as the genial heroic character, the kind of well-presented, well-spoken lad that every father in the land ...
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court. Robert Hamer. Director, Screenplay. Howard Clewes. Novel. Frank Harvey.
The Long Memory, Robert Hamer's post-Ealing brooding revenge thriller, has long been a favourite of mine, partly because it features, as part of its austere landscape, Northfleet and Gravesend, where I used to work in the late 90s. It stars John Mills as Philip Davidson, wrongly convicted for manslaughter/murder and who serves 12 years in prison.
The Long Memory Project’s mission is to cultivate the passing down of our community’s stories. Not just the ones considered worthy enough to make headlines and history books, but the small acts of courage, action, good governance and community building—the songs, poems and stories that help us understand where we came from, who we are, and what we envision for our future—both ...
8/10. This epic of good and evil is a gem of post-war British cinema. Neil-117 4 August 2000. Crime, punishment, revenge, love and redemption are the big themes of this short movie. The moral bleakness surrounding John Mills, as a man unjustly jailed and now seeking revenge, is reflected in the powerfully stark black and white landscape images ...
By the actor's own admission, The Long Memory was undertaken to pay rent and settle tax debts, with little forethought of its artistic merits. The rights for Howard Clewes' 1951 source novel had been purchased by Hugh Stewart, an independent producer who had gotten his start as a junior editor for Michael Balcon at Gaumont and had cut Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).
