A terrific - and now unfortunately timely - drama that like most films made in the early sixties looks better than anything made today (including the women's clothes & hairstyles).
I'm just old enough to remember all that snow from the winter of 1963, and this already seemed an old film when I first saw it in 1972 (the principal cast are all long dead except the eternally elegant Claire Bloom, now in her ninetieth year). But epidemics sadly are still with us, and it's the present queen's portrait we see adorning the medical officer's wall (along with Henry VIII)!
(I originally saw this film when I was aged just 13 only hours after seeing the same director's 'Inn for Trouble' (1960) on Anglia TV one Sunday afternoon. It had featured Graham Moffat - Albert the fat boy from Will Hay's Gainsborough films - as a character called 'Jumbo Gudge', and there he was again passing out while waiting to be vaccinated! By amazing fluke I'd just consecutively seen the only two films in which Moffat appeared in the last ten years of his life!!)
I'm just old enough to remember all that snow from the winter of 1963, and this already seemed an old film when I first saw it in 1972 (the principal cast are all long dead except the eternally elegant Claire Bloom, now in her ninetieth year). But epidemics sadly are still with us, and it's the present queen's portrait we see adorning the medical officer's wall (along with Henry VIII)!
(I originally saw this film when I was aged just 13 only hours after seeing the same director's 'Inn for Trouble' (1960) on Anglia TV one Sunday afternoon. It had featured Graham Moffat - Albert the fat boy from Will Hay's Gainsborough films - as a character called 'Jumbo Gudge', and there he was again passing out while waiting to be vaccinated! By amazing fluke I'd just consecutively seen the only two films in which Moffat appeared in the last ten years of his life!!)