Nowhere to Go (1958)

February 13th, 2025
Author: Meredith Taylor

Dir: Seth Holt | Cast Maggie Smith, George Nader, Bernard Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Harry H Corbett  | UK Drama 89’

After a lengthy and arduous apprenticeship at Ealing Studios at the eleventh hour Seth Holt finally got the chance to direct a film himself.

Like many of his colleagues at Ealing Holt had chafed at the limits placed on this long-held ambition by the benevolently dictatorial Michael Balcon.

With contributions from both Maggie Smith – herself making her screen debut – and with a script by Kenneth Tynan seen today this bleak fable glacially shot by Paul Beeson with a jazz score by Dizzy Reece seems that it might have ushered in a new direction for Ealing. But that was to prove not to be and the title was ultimately to provide sadly appropriate. @RichardChatten

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