I Believe in You (1952)

To mount a Basil Dearden season is an unusual idea and of course, one that resists the orthodox rhythms of repertory programming, and yet, and yet, and yet here is that season all the same. The Basil Dearden Season continues next with:

I Believe in You (1952) is an earnest British flashback and voiceover ex-Colonial Office probation officer seeks leisure and seeks social service courtroom-based teenage tearaway and juvenile threat social conscience anti-fun-fair young love and petty crime social melodrama modest Ealing drama exposing post imperial exhaustion, moral fog, bureaucratic hopefulness, and social ache, where reform curdles, idealism bruises, and British decency quietly erodes under persistence film noir by Basil Dearden, and starring Joan Collins, Laurence Harvey, Cecil Parker, Harry Fowler and Sid James.

Walk On The Wild Side (1962)

Walk On The Wild Side (1962) is a drifter narrative historical film noir tale of corrupt and tragic and exploitative brothel living starring Jane Fonda and Laurence Harvey, with Capucine and Barbara Stanwyck providing support and at times violent melodrama.

More than that, Walk On The Wild Side (1962) does provide a f & m buddy movie vibe, kicking off with a wandering tale of two drifters, drifting together, the young and wild and immoral Twist played by Jane Fonda, and the cool calm cowpoke character played by Laurence Harvey.