GarnettTeenage
The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.
Glucedee
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Leofwine_draca
LOST is an interesting, unusually-plotted crime film to come out of Britain in 1956. The electric opening sequence has a nanny taking the baby in her care to the park. She pops into a shop and comes back outside to discover that both baby and pram are missing. So begins a race-against-the-clock investigation as a dogged detective and the missing baby's parents do their very best to follow the clues and attempt to discover just what has happened to the baby. LOST is one of those films that provides a neat snapshot of everyday life during the era, with an endless array of characters introduced and subsequently questioned as the running time goes on. The suspense builds effectively to an action climax, then a twist, and another climax even more exciting. Overall, it's a nicely made little movie, one with plenty of spirit, and an exceptional number of familiar faces in supporting roles, from Thora Hird to CARRY ON stars Joan Sims and Barbara Windsor and plenty more besides.
ianlouisiana
After a long and successful career as a cinematographer this was Guy Green's second effort as a director and he approached "Lost" in a straightforward narrative manner,adopting an almost documentary style not unlike a Rank "Look at Life"episode featuring the workings of the Met Police.To some extent the involvement of the missing baby's parents is almost a side issue to the police procedural - type exposition of the plot.Mr D.Farrar is excellent as the senior detective to whom the kidnap is but one of a number of parallel enquiries.Dedicated,pains-taking,a stickler for protocol,smartly dressed and articulate,he is the type of copper that has disappeared from the radar in the last thirty years or so since "The Sweeney" made it fashionable for detectives to grunt,sniff and swear at everyone in between taking great gulps from the office Scotch. His sidekicks Mr A.Oliver and in particular the lovely Miss E.Summerfield also shine and are spick and span and clearly clean in thought,word and deed. Miss Julia Arnall is very beautiful,exquisitely dressed and a better actress than she has been given credit for.She is eminently believable as the distraught middle - class mother repressed by her own upbringing. Mr D.Knight as her husband is slightly less satisfactory.Presumably included as the token American presence he plays as very much second fiddle to the formidable Miss Arnall. My personal favourite Miss Shirley Anne Field makes her first credited movie appearance as what in the 1950s was known - disgracefully - as a "lumpy jumpered petrol pumper", posh daughter of yokel taxi driver Mr G.Woodbridge. For those who remember bomb sites,Booklovers' Libraries and paper bags with shop names on them,"Lost" is a positive feast of nostalgia. Judged on it's own merits it is a highly competent piece of work with a splendid cast right down to the wines and spirits.I can thoroughly recommend it to lovers of well - paced Britsh crime dramas just a little out of the main stream.And those clothes,those cars...the height of 1950s chic.
lucy-19
This film really is as good as people say. It's worth watching for the locations, the photography and that gallery of British stars. As soon as I saw Joan Hickson chatting to Barbara Windsor about lipstick shades I was hooked. The script is often funny, despite the harrowing subject matter (every parent's nightmare), but I can't help feeling it would have been much better directed if made 10years earlier. Films of the 40s had a comic snap that the 50s lost. In fact, it sometimes looks like a 40s script made in the 50s. It's just that opportunities for comedy are lost. A film with this structure is picaresque - it's an excuse to get your foot in the door and nose around other people's front rooms and meet a lot of people you wouldn't otherwise. More could have been made of theencounters with Thora Hird ("Take the door with you, dear, as far as it will go.") and the fat lady in the newsagents who blames the Russians. Why theRussians? "Well, if we knew that we'd know everything." The boy on the bikecould have been more of a character. And the girl at the garage (gas station to you) is just a Rank starlet with her painfully refined accent and crisp summer dress (for dispensing petrol?). Some of the best bits are back at the policestation with the excellent David Farrar and the sergeants who have to read apile of trashy novels as part of the investigation. Well worth a look.
lorenellroy
The plot of this movie deals with what is quite possibly the worst nightmare for any parent-the abduction of their child.The child is snatched while being looked after by its nanny;its upper middle class parents are distraught and the boys in blue swing into action.Dated social attitudes and the kind of behaviour that is so stiff upper lip it comes across as a Monty Python parody are drawbacks, as are some wooden lead performances but the location photography is good and the direction admirable .The -literally-cliffhanger climax is gripping and the movie passses muster as a modest and engrossing minor thriller
