SEVEN DAYS TO NOON
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Sound format: Mono
(Black and white)
They must have been forced to close huge sections of London for certain crucial scenes in this subpar suspense-thriller, in which a disillusioned nuclear scientist (Barry Jones) threatens to destroy the British capital with an atomic bomb if the UK government refuses to discontinue the manufacture of such terrible weapons. There's a good movie waiting to be made from such a premise, but this isn't it. Though long considered a 'classic' of its kind, the film is a typically drab and restrained affair from the British studios of the time, with little or no sense of drama or suspense. The script offers a convincing account of what might happen in the event of such a threat, and Olive Sloane lights up the screen as a faded music-hall performer who's taken hostage by Jones near the end of the film, but the thrills are almost non-existent, and the whole thing plods timidly until it fizzles out during the lacklustre finale.
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Sound format: Mono
(Black and white)
They must have been forced to close huge sections of London for certain crucial scenes in this subpar suspense-thriller, in which a disillusioned nuclear scientist (Barry Jones) threatens to destroy the British capital with an atomic bomb if the UK government refuses to discontinue the manufacture of such terrible weapons. There's a good movie waiting to be made from such a premise, but this isn't it. Though long considered a 'classic' of its kind, the film is a typically drab and restrained affair from the British studios of the time, with little or no sense of drama or suspense. The script offers a convincing account of what might happen in the event of such a threat, and Olive Sloane lights up the screen as a faded music-hall performer who's taken hostage by Jones near the end of the film, but the thrills are almost non-existent, and the whole thing plods timidly until it fizzles out during the lacklustre finale.