If you want to understand the appeal of the Aldwych farces this is probably the best place to start. The roots of British comedy are here. Script adapt . We had to learn it when I was in school so the film always brings back memories for me even though it was a museum piece back then. Michael Horden recounts his re-occurring dream about a plane crash to Michael Redgrave who finds the dream starts to come true.
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We have all seen this sort of film in the past, and I am sure we shall see it tomorrow. That's how Michael Powell described The Night of the Party in the first volume of his memoirs A Life in Movies, published in 1987. At the time he was right because no print was known to exist. But one turned up shortly after his death and we no longer need to imagine the awfulness - we can experience it for ourselves. He took on the project because he was promised an all-star cast and he thought he could do something with the trial scene.