It's always a pleasure to finally catch up with a film some 70 years after its initial release and it pleases rather than disappoints. This is just such a film and it's equally pleasurable to see once more the Gainsborough logo with the lady's bowing head. Virtually everyone writing here has mentioned the slightly bizarre relationship between James Mason and Pamela Kellino playing his daughter; nearly all the viewers describe Kellino erroneously as Mason's real life wife to be when they had in fact been married for four years when the film was shot so she was well and truly Pamela Mason by then but for reasons best known to herself used the name of her ex-husband Roy Kellino. At this point in his career Mason's sneer was as much a signature as Richard Widmark's ominous laugh and he keeps it on full throttle throughout whilst chewing all the scenery at hand. In complete contrast is Phyllis Calvert's Goody Two Shoes and these two performances dominate a well above average cast. Melodrama, yes, but nostalgic with it.
Review of They Were Sisters
