春暖A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement the town's most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria. Their love affair, along with rumours that the opera singer and the kitchen boy are related, turns the town upside down, threatening to ruin everyone's high expectations and the opera singer's triumphant return.
回复 :本片被认为是Ealing Studios出品的非喜剧作品中最优秀的一部，以黑色电影的手法刻画了伦敦东区工人阶级的浮生一日，堪称是激进现实主义（kitchen-sink）作品的先驱。2008年，在纽约的英国黑色电影放映季上，本片获得了美国影评人的高度赞扬，但是在此之前，本片一直鲜有人知，因此被认为是一部被忽略的1940年代英国电影杰作。《The Village Voice》夸赞本片是一部“描绘‘困境’与‘未遂心愿’的杰作，在闪回和多重叠加叙事方面极具创新性，韦瑟斯与麦卡勒姆的表演也精彩至极”。《Time Out》则评价本片是“令人无比兴奋的一部作品！一部生气十足却又凄惨无望的惊悚片，罗伯特·哈默的这部伦敦底层阶级乱炖所伴随的残忍无情与精准无误十分激荡人心，这是大部分电影都不敢尝试的，更别说能实现这一点了”。本片从一个阴雨连绵的周末清晨开始讲起，生活在伦敦东区的家庭主妇萝丝·桑迪盖特（乔姬·韦瑟斯 饰）偶然得知了汤米·斯万（约翰·麦卡勒姆 饰）逃狱的事情，萝丝不禁回想起往事，原来她与汤米曾是旧日情人，差一点便迈入婚姻殿堂，但就在俩人订婚后不久，汤米突然锒铛入狱，萝丝只好另嫁他人,令她没想到的是，逃狱后的汤米居然登门求助，念及旧情的萝丝只好将他藏匿在自己的卧室中。萝丝的丈夫乔治·桑迪盖特（爱德华·查普曼 饰）与前妻生有两个女儿——薇和多丽丝，薇怀有唱歌梦，与在乐队工作的已婚男人莫里·海姆斯暧昧不清，多丽丝则被海姆斯的兄弟卢看上，卢邀请她去夜总会工作，多丽丝的男朋友泰德因此与她大吵一架。福瑟吉尔警官一边追查汤米的下落，一边调查一起仓库失窃案，犯下失窃案的正是在东区游荡的怀提一帮人，他们为了转手赃物想尽办法，最终却被老尼斯利占了便宜，为了报仇，怀提决定暴力抢劫老尼斯利。到了深夜，萝丝打算帮助汤米逃跑，不料突然登门拜访的记者令萝丝陷入不知所措的困境。
回复 :This is commonly known as Jean Renoir's first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir's creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn't regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures. Part of it was shot in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.
回复 :24岁的克里斯汀、17岁的埃里克斯，两个人过着毫无交集的生活，其中一人会将他的女友杀害后分尸。到底会是谁？这场冷血谋杀背后的动机是什么？双线结构，镜头对准两个完全平行无交集的生命体，他们面对苦闷的现实却做出了截然不同的选择。
