So Well Remembered
United Kingdom
1947
114 Min
Black and White
1.37:1
English
Synopsis
Adapted from a novel by James Hilton, who also,narrates, this weighty and moving drama is told in flashback on the eve of the VEDay. Directed at Denham Studios with a vividsense of place by Edward Dmytryk, on the run from Hollywood’s Communist witch-huntalong with fellow “Hollywood 10” associate, American-born producer AdrianScott, the film chronicles the class and socialproblems and the struggling socialist politics of the era. Powerful, gripping,and beautifully acted, due to the involvement of Dmytryk, Scott and composer HannsEisler, several right-wing critics falsely believed this Anglo-Americanco-production between RKO and J. Arthur Rank to be communist-inspired.
Opening in 1919, crusading newspaper editorand dedicated town councillor George Boswell (John Mills) fights againstnegligence and greed in the depressed Lancashire mill town of Browdley. Tirelessly fighting for better workingconditions and housing, he is sidetracked by marriage to the mill-owner’sruthless daughter, Olivia Channing (Martha Scott), who hopes to manoeuvre herhusband into Parliament by moving to London. Boswell neglects his politicalcareer to campaign to help alcoholic local doctor Whiteside (Trevor Howard) to combata diphtheria epidemic. Personal tragedy touches Boswell when his sondies during the epidemic, and his wife leaveshim when she tires of his fight against poverty and social injustice. —Britmovie.co.uk
Director
Edward Dmytryk
A messenger boy at Paramount in the mid 1920s, Edward Dmytryk became an editor in the 1930s and began directing in 1935. By the mid ‘40s he had such impressive credits as The Devil Commands (1941) with Boris Karloff; the anti-fascist Hitler’s Children (1943); the noirs Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Cornered (1945), starring Dick Powell; and Crossfire (1947), one of the first Hollywood films to confront anti-Semitism. In 1948 Dmytryk became one of the “Hollywood Ten” when he was accused of having ties to the communist party and was sentenced to a year in prison for contempt of Congress. Following his imprisonment, Dmytryk was blacklisted in the U.S., so he directed three films in England, but returned to the States in 1951. Upon his return he went before the House Un-American Activities Committee again, this time as a “friendly” witness, and his name was dropped from the blacklist. He then resumed his American career and directed four films for producer Stanley Kramer, most notably The… read more
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