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Nazi Germany in the 1930s leaving his family behind and claims to be the young girl's father. Major Lawrence agrees to search for the young girl when he returns to Germany. On returning to Germany and after a long search Major Lawrence eventually tracks down the young girl but she is suffering from amnesia and living with a German couple who claim to be her parents. As Lawrence investigates, the circumstances of the young girl's past become more complicated.
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wrote: "The superb acting of Mai Zetterling really makes this film; she acts with emotion and feeling, and lives the part  ...The other four main characters are also very competent. Although the story is fantastic in places, it is interesting and contains little humorous touches, and realistic
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A British Army officer, Major Lawrence, is on leave from being stationed in occupied Germany just after WW2 when he sees a painting of a beautiful young girl called Hildegard in a London art gallery. While viewing the painting he is approached by an old man, Professor Franz Menzel, who escaped from
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wrote, "the new picture at the Little Carnegie stems from an intriguing idea, and there are several very effective sequences in the drama, plus a fine performance by the Swedish actress, Mai Zetterling. Indeed, if the whole of
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glimpses of camp life to display the effects of good direction and production. The lighting, camerawork and musical illustrations are all good drama, thrills and suspense, together with sufficient relief."
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Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 354. Income is in terms of producer's share of receipts.
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were as good as its parts, the posting of this notice would be a much more pleasant task. Too much, rather than too little, story and plodding direction are the principal faults"
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described it as "an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures."
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Producer's receipts were £93,000 in the UK and £43,900 overseas.
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Box office information for Terence Fisher films in France
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Anthony Steel has one of his earliest film appearances.
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Terence Fisher
Muriel Box
Sydney Box
Frank Harvey
David Evans
Antony Darnborough
Mai Zetterling
Robert Beatty
Guy Rolfe
Herbert Lom
Patrick Holt
Jack Asher
Benjamin Frankel
Gainsborough Pictures
General Film Distributors
drama film
Terence Fisher
Mai Zetterling
Robert Beatty
Guy Rolfe
Mai Zetterling
Robert Beatty
Guy Rolfe
Herbert Lom
Patrick Holt
Arnold Marlé
Sybille Binder
Thora Hird
Gerard Heinz

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