| Give Us Tomorrow | |
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| Directed by | Donovan Winter |
| Produced by | Donovan Winter |
| Starring | Sylvia Syms Derren Nesbitt James Kerry |
| Cinematography | Austin Parkinson |
| Edited by | Donovan Winter |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Give Us Tomorrow is a 1978 British crime film directed by Donovan Winter and starring Sylvia Syms, Derren Nesbitt and James Kerry. [1] [2]
After a bank manager leaves for work one morning, a criminal and his accomplice take his wife and children hostage. At the bank, he is forced to open the safe.
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According to the film's credits. the film was shot in Orpington, Kent. However, the real house used was in the Kingsway area of Petts Wood. Bircwoood Road is also seen. The former, real, high street bank which was used, on the corner of Moorfield Road, still stands. The footage also briefly passes the railway station. Glimpses of the Sevenoak's Road turn-off to Petts Wood are also seen.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite occasional lapses in emphasis, the initial exposition of Give Us Tomorrow is reasonably gripping. The placidly well-to-do surroundings of Orpington effectively offset the criminal exploits, and the clown masks worn by the bank raiders provide an appropriate (if not altogether original) touch of distorting horror. Once the action is restricted to the bank manager's home, however, the movie bogs down in reams of static dialogue, with Derren Nesbitt alternately loosing four-letter invective at middle-class respectability and hymning the homely virtues of a pot of char, and Sylvia Syms either castigating him as the scum of the earth or primly correcting his pronunciation of Cinzano. A situation familiar from Andrew Stone's The Night Holds Terror , and from sundry less memorable airings in the cinema and on TV – not for nothing, one feels, does the young hoodlum justify himself with "you see it all the time on the telly" – never creates a persuasive tension here. There is not even much impact in the climactic action, in which the lead heavy lets himself be gunned down so easily that one might think he recognised the ultimate right to win of the (surprisingly small) police contingent." [3]
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