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(1939)

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Michael Powell Public service filler
Mozjoukine27 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Suppressed Powell short. made on the eve of WW2 to promote an alternative to the Poor Law Institutions for out of work middle aged ex servicemen.

Richardson is right on target as a suburbanite off loaded by boss Jeayes after twenty one years.He tells wife Robson in the under decorated set. Ralph even gets action out of the del Sartor business of covering his eyes in grief.

He goes to the Center and gets the pitch about workshops - shoe repair, basket weaving and the evening leisure activities - snooker, theatre, film.

Soon he's back home contributing his new job pay rise to the centre.

Another one of these British public service filmlets that is now depressingly more revealing of the society than was intended.

Powell could have shot it in a day.
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