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Grand National Night (1953) [DVD]

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In 1953 it was made into a British film of the same title starring Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister and Beatrice Campbell. It is not known where exactly this scene was filmed, and it seems rather out of sync with the rest of the film, which is set in Liverpool. The original West End cast included Leslie Banks, Hermione Baddeley, Frederick Lloyd, Olga Edwardes, Campbell Copelin and Vincent Holman. It is also rather confusing in the fact that the train that comes to a halt is a Southern Region 4 SUB EMU, yet Nigel Patrick then jumps down to track level from a GWR coach! A solid thriller, directed by George Minter, in which we watch the authorities try to catch the killer, knowing "whodunnit".

But then he has a violent argument with his wife (Moira Lister), which results in her accidental murder.The film was based on Campbell and Dorothy Christie’s 1945 play, which was also presented as a BBC Radio serial in 1946. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. noel purcell and beatrice campbell do some sterling support and colin gordon is the wonderfully name buns darling. It skips along nicely and engagingly for eighty minutes with a solid contribution from the usually reliable Noel Purcell and a soupçon of glamour from the underused Beatrice Campbell too.

Read all After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' (Nigel Patrick) horse wins the Grand National, his wife comes home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed. Coates insists that she didn't come home after the big race, but the police begin to suspect him, after a train ticket is found in his coat. The viewer understands that Nigel, whilst not happy, has tried to make his marriage work, but his wife's alcoholism and reckless behaviour has left him exasperated with her. The black and white print is mostly good, but to my eyes some of the scenes had a slightly bleached quality, with vertical lines occasionally appearing on the right-hand side of the screen.

Lister features but sparingly, but her characterisation of "Babs" does rather get under your fingernails, so as the police work proceeded I did start to feel just a bit of sympathy for her rather idiotic, but good natured, husband - and Patrick is on decent form in that role here. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The horses are splendid, and there are quite a few 'hold-your-breath' moments when various characters take some pretty scary fences. Babs has already been banned from driving for 10 years, because she killed a man whilst she was driving under the influence.

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