Filmed mostly outdoors in and around Lyme Regis In Dorset way back in 1949. The year British Cinema's saw there all time record for admissions, from 1949 though later than in the USA that new must have consumer product called the television set would slowly slice and dice the Cinema exhibition industry to pieces.
Yet back in 1949 Britain genuinely had a homegrown film industry that produced quality films for domestic consumption, we all know the best of them, but i doubt if many connoisseurs of historic British films, let alone students of the post war era would list this title among the greats. Yet all who know this minor gem will surely agree, this movie is a triumph, the plot about the saving of a small town rag and a token romance to egg out the running time, is your lot for plot. Not that plot matters as this is a movie primarily about Englishness and how the English saw themselves way back then. History and time have been very generous to this film, the location Lyme Regis has changed surprisingly little and that most lovely of South West towns really is the star of the film, as it was in 1949 and it still will be in 2019 which will be very very soon. 70 years may of passed but the skill of the film makers who made this little wonder shines down through the decades. So do try to hunt down this wonderfully English/English of films and enjoy. This is little England now long long gone, yet still alive to all of us, if only on celluloid.
