I'm inserting reviews of films I'v seen that so far lack one, this rarity showed on the fairly new Talking Pictures channel on Sky, which if you like old British films (as I do) is the best thing since Carlton Cinema expired, review follows... Set in a neutral British hospital post near Shanghai during the war between China and Japan, there are a disparate bunch gathered and cut off from the outside world as a the war rages around them, into this mix comes a new nurse, the estranged wife of the doctor in charge, and a handsome English soldier, wounded while fighting for the Chinese, causing more friction
. It's watchable, but has little feel of the exotic orient, that though false is often to be found in US films of the same period. The only name I recognize from the cast is Patrick Barr, here playing assistant to the head doctor, he had a career that spanned more than 50 years, playing supporting roles. There are two notable crew members... Director John Paddy Carstairs, who had a career that spanned 30+ years, his best remembered film probably the Norman Wisdom effort 'The Square Peg (1958)'and Producer Anthony Haverlock-Allen who produced 40+ mostly forgotten films from 1935>39, but hit his stride after the war with some notable films, his career ended with 'Ryan's Daughter' (1970), which got slated by the critics on release, it's reputation having grown over the last 45 years.
