Black Memory (1947)
6/10
In the Bleak Midwinter
7 December 2020
Sydney (as he was then billed) James must have wondered just what he'd let himself in for when he arrived in London from South Africa to find himself within days shivering on a soundstage at Bushey Film Studios in the middle of the harshest winter to hit Britain in living memory (unlikely ever to be repeated thank to global warming).

The hero lends his girlfriend a crucifix for safe keeping in this very poor man's 'Brighton Rock' - atmospherically lit by S.D.Onions - which concludes with the words 'The End' accompanied by the shadow of a hangman's noose.
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