Dec 12th   
The Halfway House**     

(GB 1943)          
Ealing. 95m. bw

In 1943 guests arrive at a ghostly inn that helps them come to terms with the state of their lives.
Oddly affecting semi-supernatural drama, a little preachy and sentimentally propagandistic in its final stages, but with some useful pointers to the later classic Dead of Night.

Written by: Angus MacPhail, Diana Morgan, Roland Pertwee, T.E.B. Clarke, based on the play "The Peaceful Inn" by Dennis Ogden.
Producer: Alberto Cavalcanti.
Director: Basil Dearden.
Starring: Esmond Knight, Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, Francoise Rosay, Alfred Drayton, Guy Middleton, Sally Ann Howes, Valerie White, Richard Bird.
Photography: Wllkie Cooper.
Music: Lord Berners.