A very interesting film, with fine acting and excellent sets; it's worth watching for the historical merit, alone, but it is very, very sad!

A classic British movie.
Review date: 2004-07-27 Rating: 10 out of 10

This was produced as a celebration of British cinema in the fifties. The film deals with the life of inventor William Frieze Greene the inventor of colour film, and his early life as one of the supposed inventors of the cinematograph. It is told in a series of moving flashbacks as Greene experiences a fatal heart attack at a strained meeting of cinema business tycoons. Robert Donut is superb in the role and a number of small cameo performances all well characterised give this film real pathos.Watch out for Olivier as the astonished and yet suspicious policeman plod, along with a young Peter Ustinov, more or less bereft of lines. The colour transfer is superb in video. Helen his first wife is a joy to behold as she delivers her lines with emotion, charm, and much tactile affection.
Recommended!!

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