The Halfway House

1944

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi

8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1507 1.5K

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Plot summary

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?

Director

Basil Dearden Photo
Basil Dearden

Top cast

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Roland Pertwee as Prison Governor
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Alec Mango as Man at hotel bar
Tom Walls Photo
Tom Walls as Capt. Meadows
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Mervyn Johns as Rhys
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879.39 MB
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English 2.0
K-16
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 18 min
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1.59 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
K-16
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 18 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

When a group of weary travellers arrive at

When a group of weary travellers arrive at a rural inn, they immediately feel that something is amiss. It's run by "Rhys" (Mervyn Johns) and his (real life) daughter "Gwyneth" (Glynis Johns) who somewhat curiously never casts a shadow. The whole place looks like it's been stuck in a time-warp as the storm rages outside. Now, as the story develops we discover that each of the guests have their own skeletons in their closets, but the hostelry in which they shelter seems to be possessed with a sort of benevolence that manifests itself in different ways to help (nor not!). Made during the latter stages of the Second World War the story offers us a degree of poignant retrospective, paralleling some of the tales with the trauma many will have experienced during that conflict. It also features a charming and entertaining degree of chemistry between the father and daughter too. The individual stories themselves are maybe a bit too undercooked, but it has a decent cast of familiar British faces - Tom Walls and Esmond Knight amongst them - to deliver them solidly enough, and to help create a mysterious and poignant atmosphere for this quirky ninety minutes of wartime optimism.
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Reviewed by MartinHafer 8 / 10

House of the Dead....it isn't just a video game!

"The Halfway House" is one of the strangest films from the 1940s I can recall having seen. This is not a bad thing, as it abounds with originality and is well worth seeing.

The story is set during WWII and the film consists of many stories and characters who all share one thing in common...they all have gone to the same quaint Welsh inn to take their vacations. But most of these people are carrying burdens of one sort or another...such as broken marriages, sons killed in the war, ill health and much more. What none of them realize for some time is that this house is somehow back in time...and it's somehow a year earlier! Why and what all this means, you'll just have to see for yourself.

The film has exceptional writing and very nice acting. Stick with it, as it does start slowly and a few of the characters are at first rather annoying.

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