Judgment Deferred (1952) User Reviews

Re.make of Doss House

[malcolmgsw · 6/10 · 13 October 2017]

This is a remake of Baxters 1933 film Doss House.Most of his career was spent making second features which had a central theme of a community coming together to help one of their group in trouble.The book issued by the BFI in conjunction with the NFT season was aptly titled The Common Touch.There is a very entertaining cameo by Bud Flanagan,who starred in a number of films for Baxter.It is an entertaining film and well worth viewing.

Not uninteresting

[searchanddestroy-1 · 30 December 2012]

This film is very rare and offbeat too. Such a shame, because I find it rather unusual. See for yourself by reading the plot line above. I don't know what to add to this topic, without spoiling the film further. I sometimes thought of a sort of M - Fritz Lang's and Joseph Losey's film(remake) or some other features of this rare scheme.

Yes, unusual, surprising, without mystery or action, but good suspense. I guess it rarely crossed the Channel to Europe or Atlantic towards the USA.

So shame. I don't know the director. It looks like a forties film, not fifties, even early ones.

Look for young Joan Collins, three years before she played in Howard Hawk's LAND OF THE PHARAONS.

My judgment has not deferred to this boring thriller.

[mark.waltz · 2/10 · 18 March 2023]

Unpleasant and dull, this never grabbed my attention outside of an early appearance of Joan Collins and a few truly horrendous musical numbers in a glamorous nightclub that would have had me doing the conga right out of there thanks to the song's truly stupid lyrics. Collins is instantly recognizable underneath all of her massive lipstick, screeching her lines in a frantic manner with absolutely none of the subtlety that marked her later campy performances where her overactive came from smirks and cynical glances. Hugh Sinclair is falsely accused of murder, and members of his lower class social circle declare rebellion with protests and violence. This film drags terribly, and had me constantly checking the remainder of the running time. The fact that I couldn't come up with two paragraphs for this film doubly indicates how little of an impression it made.