They Made Me a Fugitive
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, 1947. This exquisite British noir follows Trevor Howard’s ex-RAF pilot who, due to unemployment, gets caught up in postwar black market operations and is framed for the killing of a policeman. It is “filled with malign eccentricity” (David Thomson) by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti. Part of the series Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960.