Dermot Walsh (Paul Dixon), Wendy Williams (Ann Dixon), Ian Fleming (Dr Marshall), Anton Rodgers (Tomson), Grace Arnold (Mrs Dixon), Ann Sears (Nurse Phillips), George Roderick (Manotti), Rolf Harris (Bart), Geoffrey Hibbert (Henry), Garard Green (Forbes), Hal Osmond, Diana Daneman, Hazel Wright, Victor Baring, Malcolm Ranson, Russell Cardon.
Director: MAX VARNEL. Screenplay not credited, presumably the work of an American blacklisted writer. My guess/hunch: Ben Barzman. Story: Brian Clemens, Eldon Howard. Photography: Jimmy Wilson. Film editor: Lee Doig. Art director: Malcolm Arnold. Sound supervisor: John Smith. Sound recording: W. A. Howell. Producers: Edward J. Danziger, Harry Lee Danziger. A production of The Danzigers. Not copyrighted or theatrically released in the U.S.A. Released in the U.K. through United Artists: 14 June 1959. 5,882 feet. 65 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Story about a wife's patient rehabilitation of her husband who was crippled in a car racing accident.
VIEWERS' GUIDE: Adults.
COMMENT: There is doubtless some promising dramatic material in the rehabilitation of people who are crippled in car smashes or by some other means, but this cheap and nasty quota quickie does not provide such material.
The film actually moves at an incredibly dreary pace via long dialogue scenes, most of them dominated by that garrulous and totally uninteresting old actor, Ian Fleming.
The plot content of the script is uncommonly small, and what there is can only be described as a contrived melodrama that is totally unconvincing.
Even judged by his usual extremely humble standards, Max Varnel's direction is both dull and clumsy.
The subject-matter lends itself to the wholesale use of stock footage, all of which is very ineptly integrated into the film itself.
Needless to say, the photography is flat and production values sub- standard.
Director: MAX VARNEL. Screenplay not credited, presumably the work of an American blacklisted writer. My guess/hunch: Ben Barzman. Story: Brian Clemens, Eldon Howard. Photography: Jimmy Wilson. Film editor: Lee Doig. Art director: Malcolm Arnold. Sound supervisor: John Smith. Sound recording: W. A. Howell. Producers: Edward J. Danziger, Harry Lee Danziger. A production of The Danzigers. Not copyrighted or theatrically released in the U.S.A. Released in the U.K. through United Artists: 14 June 1959. 5,882 feet. 65 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Story about a wife's patient rehabilitation of her husband who was crippled in a car racing accident.
VIEWERS' GUIDE: Adults.
COMMENT: There is doubtless some promising dramatic material in the rehabilitation of people who are crippled in car smashes or by some other means, but this cheap and nasty quota quickie does not provide such material.
The film actually moves at an incredibly dreary pace via long dialogue scenes, most of them dominated by that garrulous and totally uninteresting old actor, Ian Fleming.
The plot content of the script is uncommonly small, and what there is can only be described as a contrived melodrama that is totally unconvincing.
Even judged by his usual extremely humble standards, Max Varnel's direction is both dull and clumsy.
The subject-matter lends itself to the wholesale use of stock footage, all of which is very ineptly integrated into the film itself.
Needless to say, the photography is flat and production values sub- standard.