The Secret Partner (1961)

The Basil Dearden season addresses the early sixties with one of his noirnormative middle class mystery concoctions.

The Secret Partner (1961) is a Basil Dearden dockside dental blackmail investigative managerial executive officer heist and mystery man in the night early sixties Limey British film noir adventure thriller with Stuart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee, with Hugh Burden, Norman Bird and Lee Montague. 

Waterloo Road (1945)

Waterloo Road (1945) is a wartime flashback and voiceover absent without leave soldier versus civvy philandering conscription-dodger tale of British pluck and courage and directed by Sidney Gilliat with Trümmerfilm overtones and starring John Mills, Alistair Sim, Joy Shelton and Stuart Granger.

Waterloo Road (1945) presents itself, at first glance, as an agreeably told anecdote of domestic turbulence during the Second World War, yet such phrasing obscures the severity of its intervention.