Frieda (1947)

Zu Beginn der Basil-Dearden-Filmsaison hattest du noch nie von diesem kraftvollen, vom Holocaust inspirierten Anti-Nazi-Film-noir-Klassiker über einen heimkehrenden Veteranen gehört.

Frieda (1947) is a Basil Dearden British returning veteran World War Two anti-German sentiment in post war society and unrepentant Nazi brother stiff upper lip tension and xenophobia bucolic and Arcadian bar room punch up social issue romance and integration tear jerker film noir of longing and hope, of the holocaust itself rare and yet displayed in full X rated horror, displaying 1940s fig in a tale of national forgiveness and starring Glynis Johns, David Farrer and Mai Zetterling, and how terribly, terribly wrong it is to treat people as less than human.

Night Without Stars (1951)

Night Without Stars (1951) is a romantic ex-collabo returning veteran hitting on a war widow blind man as sleuth somewhat suspenseless suspenser intrigue thriller set in the south of France and employing French cliche and post war ennui in a blindness as a metaphor for blindness adequate British Pinewood oldie noir without stars, featuring David Farrar as Giles Gordon, Nadia Gray, Alix Delaisse, Maurice Teynac, Louis Malinay, Gilles Quéant, Gérard Landry, Pierre Chaval and June Clyde.