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The Halfway House is a 1944 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Mervyn Johns, his daughter Glynis Johns, Tom Walls and Françoise Rosay. [3] The film tells the story of ten people who are drawn to stay in an old Welsh countryside inn. Location scenes were shot at Barlynch Priory on the Devon/Somerset border. [3]
Johns made his stage debut while he and his first wife, Alyce Steele-Wareham, were touring the British dominions of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand in 1923. He had various roles in West End productions throughout the 1920s following his graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1924 when he made his West End debut with London's Grand Guignol, a Comedy Theatre production ...
1944 The Halfway House: Gwyneth Basil Dearden: Mervyn Johns: Ealing Studios [12] 1945 Perfect Strangers: Dizzy Clayton Alexander Korda: Robert Donat: London Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: U.S. title: Vacation from Marriage [9] 1946 This Man Is Mine: Millie Marcel Varnel: Tom Walls: Columbia British Productions [9] 1947 Frieda: Judy David Farrar ...
Cast Genre Notes 1944: Aventure Malgache: Alfred Hitchcock: Molière Players: World War II: French-language short propaganda film Bees in Paradise: Val Guest: Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton: Musical/comedy: Bell-Bottom George: Marcel Varnel: George Formby, Anne Firth: Comedy: Bon Voyage: Alfred Hitchcock: John Blythe, Molière Players: World War II ...
She continued with supporting roles as Romanian resistance fighter Paula Palacek in the 1943 British spy film, The Adventures of Tartu; supernatural innkeeper Gwyneth (alongside her father Mervyn Johns' Rhys) in the 1944 British drama film, The Halfway House; and the fun-loving cousin of Deborah Kerr's Dizzy Clayton in the 1945 British drama ...
The film's title refers to a tradition in British law: when addressing either the court or the judge, a barrister refers to the opposing counsel using the respectful term, "my learned friend". This was Will Hay 's last film; Hay went on to star as "Doctor Muffin" in The Will Hay Programme that aired on the radio in 1944.
The film premiered in London on 3 December 1945 at the Tivoli Cinema on The Strand and the Marble Arch Pavilion. The critic in The Times praised Googie Withers and Gordon Jackson for their roles, and concluded that Robert Hamer, "has made, in spite of occasional lapses and longueurs, a promising beginning as a director."
The Foreman Went to France (released in the USA as Somewhere in France [3]) is a 1942 British Second World War war film starring Clifford Evans, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings and Gordon Jackson. It was based on the real-life wartime exploits of Welsh engineer and munitions worker Melbourne Johns , who rescued machinery used to make guns for ...