

Scrubby reveals that they are to be judged by the Examiner. Lingley ( George Coulouris), reveals all to the other passengers. Prior is the first to learn the truth when he eavesdrops on Henry and Ann, and, spurned by his wealth-seeking actress companion, Maxine Russell ( Faye Emerson), in favor of unscrupulous war profiteer Mr. Midget ( Sara Allgood), tells Thomas Prior ( John Garfield), a newspaperman, that she would be content with a little place of her own. Timid Anglican priest Reverend William Duke ( Dennis King) yearns to more actively help others, while American merchant sailor Pete Musick ( George Tobias) looks forward to seeing his infant child for the first time. The steward, Scrubby ( Edmund Gwenn), asks them not to tell the others they are dead it is better that they come to the realization themselves.Īt first, the couple is delighted to be together eternally, but they find their situation unbearable as they become acquainted with the others. Ann recognizes the other passengers as those killed in the bombing. Suddenly, the pair find themselves on board a fog-shrouded cruise ship.

She returns to their apartment to find that Henry has turned on the gas to commit suicide.
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Searching the streets for him during a German air raid, his wife Ann ( Eleanor Parker) witnesses a bomb obliterate a car full of passengers on their way to the docks. Plot ĭuring World War II, a diverse group of people in war-ravaged London book passage for the United States, but Austrian pianist-turned-soldier in the Résistance Henry Bergner ( Paul Henreid) is unable to join them, for want of an exit permit. It is not, as is sometimes claimed, a remake of Fritz Lang's Destiny (original title Der müde Tod).

It is a remake of the film Outward Bound (1930), itself based on the 1923 play Outward Bound by Sutton Vane. Opening the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Festival 2021, Between Two Worlds invites us to reflect on the ethics of character, trust, friendship and journalistic practice.Between Two Worlds is a 1944 American World War II fantasy drama film starring John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, and Eleanor Parker. With generosity and humour, they embody the shadow workers despised by society. This brave choice by Director Emmanuel Carrère accentuates the documentary aspects of the film and brings with it a welcome humanity. Juliette Binoche shines in the lead role but the film is stolen by the non-professional actors who form the rest of the cast, led by the sincere and realistic performance of Hélène Lambert. She then faces the awful situation of having to confess to her new friends that she has been using their life stories as raw material for her book. Marianne’s disquiet grows as she forms a tight bond with her co-workers, all the while secretly taking notes on them. Marianne (Binoche), a writer posing as a cash-strapped divorcée who needs work, is hired as a cabin cleaner on a ferry boat at the port of Ouistreham which serves the city of Caen.
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Juliette Binoche (High Life, AF FFF19, How to Be a Good Wife, AF FFF20) stars in this immersive drama based on French journalist Florence Aubenas’ bestselling non-fiction book, Le Quai de Ouistreham (The Night Cleaner).
