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The Criminal (1960)
Not great
The Cleo Laine track, the odd behaviour of Scout dancing about, tha arty jazzy track, Jill Bennett's stage hysterics, the West Indian singing calypso (fashionable at the time) to a guitar in prison(!?) , the party, all create an air of unrealistic artiness. The criminals are half baked - just remember when this was made the Krays were roaming London creating mayhem. Losey could have studied them and then really scared us.
Morvern Callar (2002)
Error
Near the end she is leaving her home town in Scotland. She is shown waiting for a train in the station. The rail tracks are 3 rail electrified tracks. There is no such electrification in Scotland, only southern England. Very poor. Spoils the authenticity.
The Brothers (1947)
Culturally incorrect
The film is set on Skye yet the girl is passed to the care of a Catholic priest and everybody else seems to be Catholic. The islands of the Hebrides in 1900 were rigidly segregated religiously. Skye was a devoutly Protestant island with its inhabitants being communicants of either the Protestant Church of Scotland or the strictly Calvinist Free Church of Scotland. I do not think there would be a single Catholic priest on the island. Only the islands of Barra and South Uist were devoutly Catholic. For me this renders the whole film farcical.