The Long Memory

The Long Memory
Original British 1953 quad film poster
Directed byRobert Hamer
Screenplay byRobert Hamer
Frank Harvey
Based onThe Long Memory
by Howard Clewes
Produced byHugh Stewart
StarringJohn Mills
John McCallum
Elizabeth Sellars
Eva Bergh
CinematographyHarry Waxman
Edited byGordon Hales
Music byWilliam Alwyn
Production
companies
Rank Organisation
Europa Films
British Film-Makers
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
  • 23 January 1953 (1953-01-23) (UK [1])
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£110,000[2]

The Long Memory is a black-and-white 1953 British crime film directed by Robert Hamer, starring John Mills, John McCallum and Elizabeth Sellars.[3] The screenplay was by Hamer and Frank Harvey based on the 1951 novel The Long Memory by Howard Clewes.

Its bleak setting and grim atmosphere have led to its acclaim as a British example of film noir.[4]

  1. ^ The Times, 23 January 1953, page 2: Classified Advertising, Picture Theatres, Leicester Square Theatre - found in The Times Digital Archive 21 November 2013
  2. ^ BFI Collections: Michael Balcon Papers H3 reprinted in British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference By Sue Harper, Vincent Porter p 41
  3. ^ "The Long Memory". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  4. ^ Spicer, Andrew European Film Noir, Manchester University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-7190-6790-1