Scotch eggs and apple dumplings, hops farms, boy scouts with pop guns and apple fights, blackout wardens and cider by the mug, a bed that Queen Elizabeth stayed in and the constant clop of Chaucer's pilgrims -- Powell and Pressburger made films set snugly in their proper place. This is 40s England (with its war, its moralising gentlemen farmers, its prejudices but its charms). In one sequence the young Alison (Sheila Smith) hears the sounds of the medieval pilgrims as…
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The Edge of the World 1937
Elegiac, rich, human, a George Eliot novel with some of Powell's best photography. I even preferred the cinematography to 'I Know Where I'm Going'. It too is a romance -- not young lovers but between an artist and a time and place that's lost, 'where life as our fathers knew it is no longer possible.'
PS. grab the DVD so you can watch Powell's 8mm home movies of hikes in Wester Ross.
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