While I Live (1947)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

John Harlow

Writers:

Robert Bell (play)
John Harlow (writer)

Release Date:

31 August 1951 (Finland)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

25 years later, a spinster still obsesses over the death of her composer sister and concludes she has returned, reincarnated, in an amnesiac woman who chances upon her house seeking help.

Plot Keywords:

Reincarnation | Amnesia | Based On Play

Cast

Sonia Dresdel	...	Julia Trevelyan
Carol Raye	...	Sally Grant
Tom Walls	...	Nehemiah
Patricia Burke	...	Christine Sloan
Clifford Evans	...	Peter Sloan
John Warwick	...	George Grant
Audrey Fildes	...	Olwen Trevelyan
Ernest Butcher	...	Ambrose, the innkeeper
Enid Hewitt	...	Ruth, the housekeeper
Sally Rogers	...	Hannah, waitress
Charles Victor	...	Sergeant Pearne
Edward Lexy	...	Selby
Johnnie Schofield	...	Alfie
John Martyn	...	Onlooker
Brenda Cameron	...	Mary

Also Known As:

The Dream of Olwen (UK) (reissue title)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:S

Company:

Edward Dryhurst Productions

Soundtrack:

While I Live

I have said what I wish to say beneath

it struck so powerfully when I was young it has stayed in my mind ever since. The daughter in her night dress, sleep walking on the top of a cliff on a windy rainy dark night, and going to throw herself over, as her mother had, but being rescued just in time by her boyfriend and another I think. My philosophical response to it in later years, was that in the event she didn't have to do what her mother had done. In adult interpretation this would be that the repetition compulsion had not had to be acted out. And that this was a deliverance. It must have some connection with my mother's early death from cancer. Jeremy Ross. AFECT film school. London