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1958
Directed by Seth Holt
Synopsis
...except into a woman's arms!
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
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Cast
George Nader Maggie Smith Bernard Lee Geoffrey Keen Bessie Love Harry H. Corbett Andrée Melly Lionel Jeffries Barbara Hicks George Hilsdon Glyn Houston Noel Howlett Oliver Johnston Lily Kann Harry Locke Howard Marion-Crawford Lane Meddick Charles Price Maggie Rennie Guy Standeven John Welsh
DirectorDirector
Seth Holt
ProducerProducer
Michael Balcon
WritersWriters
Seth Holt Kenneth Tynan
Original WriterOriginal Writer
Donald MacKenzie
EditorEditor
Harry Aldous
CinematographyCinematography
Paul Beeson
Camera OperatorCamera Operator
Chic Waterson
Production DesignProduction Design
Peter Proud
Art DirectionArt Direction
Alan Withy
ComposerComposer
Dizzy Reece
Studio
Ealing Studios
Country
UK
Language
English
Alternative Titles
El botín de la muerte, Le criminel aux abois, Misdadiger op drift, Sem Saida, Umpikujassa, Senza domani, Forbrytelse lønner seg ikke, Nicăieri de mers, Некуда идти, Brott lönar sig inte, Gejagt, 温柔乡, 노웨어 투 고
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Crime Thriller
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02 Dec 1958
- UK
11 Mar 1959
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02 Dec 1958
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Review by sakana1 ★★★★ 8
Incredibly, Nowhere to Go is the first film by director Seth Holt — he of fascinating stuff like Taste of Fear and Station Six-Sahara — and the only one on which he'd receive writing credit. Already, however, he shows great ability to create creeping tension, impressive restraint, and admirable patience, allowing events to play out slowly and gradually, as audience nerves are stretched ever-tighter.
In addition to Holt's considerable storytelling skills, he shapes his tale by offering a lead character for whom we never quite feel sorry. Instead, we watch the world of escaped felon Paul Gregory (George Nader) fall apart in much the same way Gregory himself does: from an emotional distance, observing but not engaging. For Gregory, this…
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Review by Chloe
Nowhere to Go was released at the other end of 1958 to Elevator to the Gallows, and although the actors may be speaking a different language, the films are definitely singing from the same hymn sheet. In fact, if the British moviehad a plot that didn’t wander off track so frustratingly often, it might well be regarded as a worthy peer to the Louis Malle masterpiece.
Still, narrative flabbiness aside, there’s a lot to recommend Nowhere to Go. For one thing, it’s proof that George Nader really could carry a decent movie when given the opportunity. His partnership with Bernard Lee (who at one point calls him a ‘weirdy’!?!), is fascinating to watch, as is the debut big screen performance of a very young Maggie Smith.Seth Holt has a tight command on the tension, and choreographs somethrilling sequences. The photography is gorgeous throughout.
Not quite a classic, but a very good movie nonetheless.
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Review by Cate ★★★½
Where are you going to go that I can't find you?
A Brit Noir as tense and atmospheric as you'd expect from the director of The Nanny and Taste of Fear, full of menace, mundanity, and eye-catching flourishes.
Nowhere To Go is beautifully constructed, making use of spare, ambient sound design (the muted driving rain, the bells, the prolonged blare of the car horn), which helps turn the middle of the film into a close and lonely character study – a world askew in low angle shots; a character adrift, hiding in deep framing packed with strange objects. There's a wearing, unhurried inevitability to the rhythym of the film, like the slow drip of water on stone.
I loved the…
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Review by Prinkips ★★★★★
A really nice thriller. It's quick paced and with a somewhat likable protagonist.
Also, I LOVED how it was directed. Some shots were so stylish!🏳️🌈 Queer Film Challenge 2022 Movie #26/45
🌟 Task Bonus 1. A film starring George Nader -
Review by Nick ★★★½
Noirvember 2023 Lazy Quickie Reviews #19
Tightly executed above-average noir that isn't really anything special but does its job well enough.
George Nader's lead feels like something of a rough draft of the legion of icy Melville, Suzuki, and Nomura professional crooks that are all just around the corner. He doesn't nearly have the cool of an Alain Delon or Jō Shishido, but he has the quiet remove, the backstreet professionalism, and mellowed paranoia down pat.
Maggie Smith's character is well-acted and always seems to be threatening to become desperately interesting, but sadly the script never gets around to really cutting her loose.
Fun seeing Bernard Lee as a heavy if you, like me, mostly know him as the most avuncular of 007's various Ms.
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Review by Vincent ★★★½
At Home - PLEX
Super Bowl Sunday typically is the closing night of the Noir City Film Festival at San Francisco's famed Castro Theatre in lieu of that occurring I figured I'd treat myself to a noir double feature before and during The Big Game
Another Ealing produced noir this time very stylish and cool with a hard bop score and hepcat gangsters and hoods. A man escapes prison in the films opening scene and during a bath catches us up in flashback. the Canadian conman pulled one over on a widow and turns himself in to do the mild sentence as a first time offender but the judge throws the book at him, now escaped and wanted he must…
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Review by Leavingfilmstrk ★★★★
If Bernard Lee is in the cast I must watch.
Lee is a silent partner to con man George Nader who is as cutthroat as his ruthless pal. Their plan is a bit bonkers. Nader swindles an older woman and intentionally goes to jail for it, which I did not quite understand. I guess he figures either he'd get a short sentence, which he doesn't, or he'd escape, which means he ends up on the run anyway.
I love how nasty British noirs are. I love Maggie Smith but I was a bit worried when she takes center stage in the final act that an otherwise brutal noir was going to go soft, but the ending proved me wrong. Bravo.…
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Review by Captain Quint ★★★½
Nowhere to Go is a good solid crime story, steeped in shadow and hopelessness - with some good solid acting from George Nader (playing the con man), Bessie Love and Bernard Lee (M from the Bond flicks). There's hard bop jazz from Dizzy Reece and noir-like photography from Paul Besson to admire. The movie is also notable as the directorial debut of respected editor, Seth Holt. All in all, it's good, solid stuff.
What elevates it to must-see status is that it marks Maggie Smith's first on-screen film credit; and even at this early point in her career you can tell that she has that certain something. A certain something that the others (as good as they are) don't possess. It's the kind of something (talent, presence, personality) that will make her the award-winning, critically praised star of stage and screen she is to this day.
All Hail Dame Maggie!
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Review by Andrew Male ★★★★½
“There’s no-one left now. You’re the only person I know who isn’t a cop or a thief.”
The penultimate Ealing Films release is a beautifully bleak British noir with a cool jazz score in which arrogant Canadian crim Paul Gregory (George Nader) is brought low by inexorable fate and the moral code of the British criminal class. Exquisitely directed almost entirely on location by the erratically brilliant Seth Holt it’s also visually impressive thanks to the nighttime camerawork of journeyman cinematographer Paul Beeson. A real surprise. Plus, an extra half star for the young Maggie Smith and her polar bear carpet and the best night-club act I’ve ever seen in the movies. Would make for a good double-bill with Edgar Ulmer’s Detour. Great sound design too.
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Review by Luke Thorne ★★
Seth Holt takes charge of this British crime drama. George Nader is sprung from jail in London by his accomplice after getting a stretch as expected for robbing a woman (Maggie Smith) who falls for his charms…
The story concerns Canadian impostor Paul Gregory (George Nader) who gets himself out of a London prison and goes after the cash he's hidden away. Inappropriately, his companion has already chosen to keep it all for himself.
An unintended demise leaves Paul as a fugitive, and he finds himself estranged from his underground influences, required by the police and apparently without optimism. But then he encounters a young trend-setter (Maggie Smith) who is unable to battle his attraction and choose to support him…
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Review by Jonathan Melville ★★★½
Adapted from Donald Mackenzie’s novel and scripted by film critic Kenneth Tynan, Nowhere to Go stars George Nader as Paul Gregory, a smarter-than-most thief who has back-up plans for back-up plans but who one day finds his luck running out.
When he’s broken out of prison by accomplice Sloane (Bernard Lee), Gregory sets about retrieving the cash he hid from the police a few years earlier, only for his world to spin out of control.
Eschewing the perceived characteristics of a typical Ealing – a cosy community, the little man against the odds – Nowhere to Go instead borrows heavily from film noir as Gregory attempts to see his plan to the bitter end.
With fine support from Lee and a young Maggie Smith as his potential love interest, Nowhere to Go may not quite be a classic British thriller but it’s a welcome return for a film which has been, like Gregory, out in the cold for too long.
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Review by Sam Essss ★★★½
Taut and atmospheric, sharp and shadowy; wonderfully capturing the essence of noir, full of moral ambiguity and tension, all heightened with the cool af jazz score, which....
....in a weird baader-meinhof moment, after getting into a bebop jazz rabbit hole the other day, discovered Dizzy Reece, who wrote the score!
Rest in power Maggie!