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I'll Turn to You

I'll Turn to You

  • Status: Released
  • 17-06-1946
  • Runtime: 97 min
  • Score: 5
  • Vote count: 2

When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.

Terry Randall

Aileen Meredith

Don Stannard

Roger Meredith

Harry Welchman

Mr. Collins

Ann Codrington

Mrs. Collins

George Merritt

Cecil Joy

Irene Handl

Mrs. Gammon

Ellis Irving

Henry Browning

Nicolette Roeg

Flora Fenton

Anthony Pendrell

Dick Fenton

Leslie Perrins

Chigwell

John Henry Allen

Estate Agent

Grace Arnold

Nurse

Davina Whitehouse

Telephonist

Melville Crawford

Bullen

Arthur Denton

Commissionaire

Jonathan Field

Brierson

Michael Gainsborough

Office Boy

Cameron Hall

The Neighbour

Hamilton Keene

Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)

David Keir

Estate Agent

Olive Kirby

Office Girl

Evelyn Laye

Herself

Sandy Macpherson

Himself

Aubrey Mallalieu

Managing Director

John McHugh

Orchestral Soloist

Janet M. Morrison

Mrs. Jordan

Peter Penn

Fellowes

Albert Sandler

Leader, Palm Court Orchestra

Jack Vyvyan

Stage Door Keeper

Sylvia Welling

Herself

Hal Gordon

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

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I suppose this scenario must have played out in quite a few households across the country after the end of WWII. “Roger” (Don Stannard) returns home to his loving wife “Aileen” (Terry Randall) and pretty much instantly struggles to settle down into his new, rather pedestrian, existence. They have very little money and he sees his wife (innocently) associating with friends like “Henry” (Ellis Irving) who can give her so much more than he can. It’s this frustration that leads him to abscond - but a chance meeting with his supposed foe might just help him get his priorities straight. It’s a very gently paced, rather contrived, story this with far too much dialogue: if she called him ‘darling’ one more time… and frankly it really struggles to sustain ninety-odd minutes. Indeed the last fifteen of those is set at a concert and luckily the fine dulcets of a Welsh choir and soloist John McHugh keep our attention while the melodrama reaches it’s all-too predicable conclusion. It was made immediately after the end of the war, when sentiment would have been very deep and perhaps that gave it an added resonance at the time. Now, though, it’s all rather weak and unremarkably performed by two stars who don’t really shine.