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''Conscience Bay'' is a 1964 British film. It was made through Welbeck Films, one of the companies of producer
Sydney Box Frank Sydney Box (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis. He produced and co- ...
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Premise

In a Nova Scotian fishing village, Nelly and Fred, childhood sweethearts, discover that Ben, a hunchbach fisherman, has been stealing the lobster catch. Nelly also discovers that Ben is the illegitimate son of Aunt Boo, Nelly's adoptive mother, married to Caleb. Nelly and Ben become friends and then lovers.


Cast

*Rosemarie Anderson *Mark Dignam *Catherine Willmer *John Bone


Production

The film was from an American playwright living in England, Norman Vane. He raised £5,000 and attempted to make the film independent in Ireland but ran into union difficulties.Lassally p 113 Rank agreed to distribute. It would pay 70% of the budget which had to be £20,000. Filming took place in Cornwall in September 1959. During filming the cast and crew rescued some children who had capsized their boat. The shoot was four weeks on location, two in studio. The original was 90 minutes but the distributor forced Vane to cut it down to 67 minutes and add a music score. Walter Lassally wrote in 1960:
What is left of the original idea? Some fine location work, a charming and a capable performance on the part of the two leads, and the bones of a plot which was once firmly rooted in its locale but which now takes place, rather confusingly, in a virtual vacuum. Some of the scenes considered the best by the director have been cut. They “wouldn’t hold”. Some scenes, which he thought the worst acted, and had seen fit to remove without injuring the story-line, have been put back. In short, a sorry sort of compromise, which will now perforce be sat through by the audience in the same state of semi-conscious torpor in which most second features are viewed. Will the investors get their money back ? Probably.


Release

The film appears to have not been released theatrically until 1964.


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References


External links


''Conscience Bay''
at BFI
''Conscience Bay''
at Letterbox *{{IMDb title, id=0181413 1960 films 1960s British films