I don’t understand about the Bolshies, but everything else sounds like a perfectly normal evening with normal things happening like happen at the edge of the sea.
Sam is briefly convinced that Jim and Alice must be Bolshevik saboteurs, preparing to blow up the light. In his defense, it would make slightly more sense than anything either of them has said about themselves to that point, but in their defense, he's pretty spooked at the time.
Would you watch it again knowing what you know now about its failings?
Yes. It has great sea-sense; it allows even its crankiest or flightiest characters to pitch in at the climax and be real; and I'd love to see its lighthouse photography on film. I might just read through most of the first half-hour if it came around on TCM.
[edit] I forgot the actually important reason, which is that since I am interested in Powell and Pressburger as filmmakers, anything of theirs is of interest to me even if it only half works. I will catch up eventually on the Pressburger side of this equation. I keep forgetting he co-wrote Wanted for Murder (1946), one of the canonical Eric Portman noirs. I continue to wish someone would rediscover a print of Squadron Leader X (1943).
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Sam is briefly convinced that Jim and Alice must be Bolshevik saboteurs, preparing to blow up the light. In his defense, it would make slightly more sense than anything either of them has said about themselves to that point, but in their defense, he's pretty spooked at the time.
Would you watch it again knowing what you know now about its failings?
Yes. It has great sea-sense; it allows even its crankiest or flightiest characters to pitch in at the climax and be real; and I'd love to see its lighthouse photography on film. I might just read through most of the first half-hour if it came around on TCM.
[edit] I forgot the actually important reason, which is that since I am interested in Powell and Pressburger as filmmakers, anything of theirs is of interest to me even if it only half works. I will catch up eventually on the Pressburger side of this equation. I keep forgetting he co-wrote Wanted for Murder (1946), one of the canonical Eric Portman noirs. I continue to wish someone would rediscover a print of Squadron Leader X (1943).