While I Live

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While I Live (1947)

10/07/1947 (GB) Thriller 1h 25m

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In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. 25 years on, Olwen has gained posthumous fame as a result of her tragic death and her haunting uncompleted composition 'The Dream of Olwen'. Her reclusive sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), who has never come to terms with Olwen's death, becomes convinced that Olwen has returned when she meets an amnesiac woman who looks like her.

John Harlow

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Doreen Montgomery

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Sonia Dresdel

Julia Trevelyan
Carol Raye

Sally Grant
Tom Walls

Nehemiah
Patricia Burke

Christine Sloan
Clifford Evans

Peter Sloan
John Warwick

George Grant
Audrey Fildes

Olwen Trevelyan
Ernest Butcher

Ambrose
Enid Hewitt

Ruth
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on August 10, 2019

For while I live, you shall not die!

While I Live is directed by John Harlow and written by Robert Bell, John Harlow and Doreen Montgomery. It stars Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Sonia Dresdel, Patricia Burke, John Warwick, Edward Lexy and Audrey Fildes. Music is by Charles Williams and cinematography by Freddie Young.

It has been 25 years since her composer sister died in tragic circumstance, but Julia Trevelyan (Dresdel) still obsesses over her. Then one day an amnesiac woman arrives at the family home looking for help, and now Julia is certain that she is the reincarnation of her beloved... read the rest.

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