''Journey Ahead'' is a 1947 British second feature ('B') film directed by Peter Mills and starring

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, John Stevens, Howard Douglas and Ruth Haven. It was written by

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Plot

Brothers Mike and Adam Baxter spedn their time on a boat belonging to the late husband of landlady Mrs Deacon. Mike falls in love with her convalescing houseguest Ann Franklin, a young war widow who begins to suspect that Mike and Adam are smugglers. They turn out, however, to be government agents.

Cast

as Mrs. Deacon * Ruth Haven as Ann Franklin * John Stevens as Mike Baxter * Howard Douglas as Adam Baxter

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those wi ...

'' wrote: "Made on modest lines, amidst picturesque scenery, the film is refreshingly free from studio artificialities. Local colour is ably supplied by Nora Gordon as the homely Mrs. Deacon and Howard Douglas as her Customs officer beau. Ruth Haven and John Stevens are pleasantly natural as Ann and Mike." ''

Kine Weekly ''Kinematograph Weekly'', popularly known as ''Kine Weekly'', was a trade paper catering to the British film industry between 1889 and 1971. Etymology The word Kinematograph was derived from the Greek ' Kinumai ', (to move, to be in motion, to ...

'' wrote: "Unpretentious yet picturesquely mounted adventure melodrama. ... Ruth Haven is an engaging and appealing, though slightly 'refeened,' Ann, and John Stevens, also a little 'tony,' is adequate as Mike. The support is sound. The staging is obviously authentic and it is the impressive scenery as much as its modern swashbuckling that keeps the film's end up. A modest diamond in the rough, it should prove acceptable to the majority of picturegoers." In ''British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959'' David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Modest drama with refreshing settings."

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*{{IMDb title, id=0176871, title=Journey Ahead 1947 films British black-and-white films