Saturday | October 24 9:00 pm

Turn the Key Softly

Screening on Film

Directed by Jack Lee.
With Yvonne Mitchell, Terence Morgan, Joan Collins.
UK, 1953, 35mm, black & white, 81 min.
Print source: Park Circus

A Neorealist-influenced story of three women—played by Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins and Kathleen Harrison—released from jail into the cold indifference of London, brought vividly to life by Geoffrey Unsworth's fantastic cinematography. Lee is a sensitive—even sensual—director, with a continental touch and remarkably assured pacing. This film alone proves him to be one of the unsung heroes of British cinema

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The Elephant Will Never Forget

Directed by John Krish.
UK, 1953, 35mm, black & white.
Rights courtesy of Film London – London’s Screen Archives and London Transport Museum
11.
Print source: British Film Institute

The most emotionally evocative films often make you nostalgic for something you have never experienced. This short film does just that with a London tram, capturing its final run before the service was discontinued.