Time to Remember explained

Time to Remember
Director:Charles Jarrott
Producer:Jack Greenwood
Music:Bernard Ebbinghouse
Cinematography:Bert Mason
Editing:Derek Holding
Studio:Merton Park Studios
Distributor:Anglo-Amalgamated
Runtime:58 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English

Time to Remember is a 1962 British crime film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Yvonne Monlaur, Harry H. Corbett and Robert Rietty.[1] It was written by Arthur La Bern, loosely based on the 1915 Edgar Wallace novel The Man Who Bought London.[2]

It was part of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries film series made at Merton Park Studios

Plot

Jumbo Johnson is trapped by the police while robbing jewels from a house. He climbs to the roof and stuffs the jewels down the chimney, then falls off the roof. Before he dies he tells his wife about the hidden loot. When she tries to buy the house Burgess the estate agent is suspicious, and finds the jewels. Victor, one of John's friends is also seeking the jewels, surprises Burgess, who kills Victor, bricking up his body in the chimney. He subsequently buys the house. Johnson's wife, realising that Burgess has duped her, claims the reward for the jewellery and alters the police.

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An inept and sometimes incoherent addition to the Edgar Wallace series, in which everybody double-crosses everybody without taking time off for explanations (how did Burgess know which chimney to look in, and wouldn't Victor's body have begun to smell somewhat before the lease was signed and Burgess able to move in to deal with it?). The resulting cracking pace is about the only thing one can be thankful for."[3]

References

  1. Web site: Time to Remember . 16 August 2024 . British Film Institute Collections Search.
  2. Book: Goble, Alan . The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film . Walter de Gruyter. . 199 . 486.
  3. 1 January 1962 . Time to Remember . . 29 . 336 . 129 . ProQuest.

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