Turn the Key Softly
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Directed by Jack Lee, 1953. A Neorealist-influenced story of three women—played by Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins and Kathleen Harrison—released from jail into the cold indifference of London, brought vividly to life by Geoffrey Unsworth's fantastic cinematography. Lee is a sensitive—even sensual—director, with a continental touch and remarkably assured pacing. This film alone proves him to be one of the unsung heroes of British cinema. Part of the series Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960. Screening on film.