Lissa Campbell
Margaret Lockwood
Lissa Campbell
Overview
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting in the War. Unbeknownst to Lissa, however, Kit's affections are also much in demand from a rival of hers.
Cast
Kit Firth
Stewart Granger
Kit Firth
Judy
Patricia Roc
Judy
Tom Tanner
Tom Walls
Tom Tanner
Albert
Reginald Purdell
Albert
Ray
Walter Hudd
Ray
Mrs. Pitt Smith
Josephine Middleton
Mrs. Pitt Smith
Miss Rossiter
Beatrice Varley
Miss Rossiter
Angus Rossiter
Laurence Hanray
Angus Rossiter
Stuttering Cornish Fisherman
Bryan Herbert
Stuttering Cornish Fisherman
Cornish Fisherman
Roy Emerton
Cornish Fisherman
Telephone Engineer
George Merritt
Telephone Engineer
Reviews
CinemaSerf
Margaret Lockwood is really quite effective in this film as accomplished pianist "Lissa/Felicity" who discovers that she has a life-limiting illness. She decides to spend what time she has left in a remote rural village where she encounters the dashing "Kit" (Stewart Granger), an RAF pilot affected by gradual blindness after an encounter with an WWII bomb. The romance now gently unfolds, with both afraid to commit for fear their impending future will be a burden on the other. There are a couple of characterful sub-plots as "Kit" searches for molybdenum amongst the local rocks and has to rescue some local folks trapped in a collapsed mine to complement the intensity of the drama from Granger, and there are some lovely musical interludes including an especially touching rendition of Hubert Bath's "Cornish Rhapsody" from the coastal outdoor amphitheatre at Porthcurno too. There were many of these wartime stories that mingled the effects of war on the effects of people - this is one of the best, and well worth a watch
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