Really Surprised!

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

(Warning: Some viewers will be disturbed that the following words of mine aren't exactly a review, and they start on-topic but then go tangential for a while.)For the record: Even as I peck at my keyboard now, Australia's digital television channel Gem is showing the original undamaged English-dialogue version of _So Little Time_ (Gem's timetable labels it as a "premiere", whatever that means). Thanks, Nine Network—you're a jewel for visiting some dungeon of a vault to grant brief parole to this engrossing movie.BTW-1: Barbara Mullen's Anna brings to my mind's eye and ear BM's Janet MacPherson, who in all 191 (! but not as many as _Wagon Train_) episodes of the BBC's black-and-white television series _Dr Finlay's Casebook_ between 1962 and 1971 keeps house for Andrew Cruickshank's Dr Cameron and Bill Simpson's Dr Finlay. Now, _that's_ a gem that seems to have disappeared from the world's living-rooms. If we can be fed umpteen black-and-white episodes of _Wagon Train_, enjoyable enough though they are, then perhaps we should also be prescribed at least one repeat dose of television's first series of A J Cronin's classic tales from Arden House in interbellum Scotland.BTW-2: _So Little Time_ seems to evade the radar of Leonard Maltin, but not of Halliwell.

How sad that this film appears to have been lost - how do you "lose" such an good film?I too have only seen it once, on television - was it in the seventies? But I've never forgotten it, and always kept an eye out for it to appear on television again, especially since the advent of cable, or in video stores, but it has eluded me.I've always liked Marius Goring's work - yes, I fell in love with him in The Red Shoes - but this film was particularly strong in both story- line and casting. I've always preferred black and white film for drama, and it was just right for this romantic and ultimately tragic story.I'm rating it high, although I saw it so long ago and can't remember details, but for any film to have had such an impact that one can't forget it decades later after one viewing, means it deserves the highest rating.

I have been waiting for over 40 years to see this movie again but so far to my knowledge it is not available anywhere. This film has been forgotted by everyone, sad but true. It is really one of the finest world war 2 films made in the UK. I only wish someone, somehow, can bring it back. I made numerous efforts to find this film but so far no one can tell me where it can be obtained. I have written to many film studios in the UK but all tell me the film is not availabe. No one can tell me why but the film cannot be bought, shown, or distributed by anyone. It is as if it never existed but to those of us who know the film realize it was a wonderful love story true to world war 2 love story films.

This movie has haunted me since the day I saw it in August of 1955. I have never had movie stick in my mind like this one. I would love to have a video of it and have never seen in anywhere and I always look for it. Cannot believe that it has not been put out for purchase. My husband (who since passed away) and I often discussed it in years following our seeing it. It impressed him as well, so I know it isn't just a "woman's sentimental" memory. It remains my favorite Maria Schell movie to this day!