Never Look Back

Interesting court case where all parties are emotionally involved with each other, the prosecutor being in love with the solicitor, and the prosecuted being an ex-lover of the solicitor. It is of course a real problem for her, but Rosamund John makes a great performance of it, while her two cavaliers naturally end up fighting each other. The case is tricky: her ex-lover turns up at her house just as her suitor has left it, and circumstance make him spend the night on the divan at her place, while she has locked him out of her room. When he leaves in the morning he goes back to his present girl-friend and finds her shot dead. He is prosecuted for the murder. How this tangle of messed up circumstances involving an accidental or contrived death is what the film is about, and most of it takes place in court. Guy Middleton as the lover of long ago makes an increasingly bad impression, which makes you understand the title of the film. She looked back and went through an ordeal for it. The film does not let her comment on the settlement between the rivals. It is all worth watching primarily for the excellent eloquence throughout.