Time to Remember ** (1962, Harry H Corbett, Yvonne Monlaur, Robert Rietty, Ernest Clark, David Lodge, Ray Barrett) – Classic Movie Review 12,568

Harry H Corbett returns from the 1960 film Marriage of Convenience for another intriguing if minor and musty Edgar Wallace Mysteries filler thriller, the 1962 British crime film Time to Remember, directed by Charles Jarrott. Corbett stars as Jack Burgess, a shady, opportunistic real estate agent who seizes the chance to recover stolen loot after a jewel robbery goes wrong at an abandoned London house.

Time to Remember stars Harry H Corbett, Yvonne Monlaur, Robert Rietty, Ernest Clark, David Lodge, and Ray Barrett. It is part of the 48-film Edgar Wallace Mysteries series of second-feature films made at Merton Park Studios, released in British cinemas between 1960 and 1965. The films were later sold to American TV and screened as The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre. Time to Remember was released by Anglo-Amalgamated in July 1962. It is loosely based by screen-writer Arthur La Bern on the 1915 novel The Man Who Bought London by Edgar Wallace.

A gang of jewel thieves rob a house recently empty after the death of its rich lady owner. Things start to go wrong and, as one of the gang is about to be captured, he hides the jewels in the house. Along comes shady, opportunistic real estate agent Jack Burgess, who seizes his chance to recover the stolen loot.

Time to Remember has its charms and is high end for the series. Pace, plot, mystery and cast are all good, with Corbett outstanding, though perhaps the photography and certainly the score are less impressive. The film is only 55 minutes long and it whisks by.

It is the final film of Brenda Kaye.

Just to be clear, the opening credits state: ‘All characters and events in this film are fictitious and any similarity to actual persons and events is purely coincidental.’ Also in the opening credits, Ray Barrett’s name appears last as ‘… and introducing Ray Barrett’.

The low budget is visible when the scene outside the windows of Burgess’s office is so obviously just a painted backdrop.

The cast are Harry H Corbett as Jack Burgess, Yvonne Monlaur as Suzanne, Robert Rietty as Victor, Ernest Clark as Cracknell, David Lodge as Jumbo Johnson, Ray Barrett as Sammy, Patricia Mort as Vera, Genine Graham as Mrs Johnson Jack Watson as Inspector Bolam, Andre Charisse as Inspector Charcot, Larry Taylor as Garritty, Brenda Kaye as Secretary, Marjie Lawrence as Vivienne, Brian Hewitt-Jones as Police Constable, Peter Howard-Johnson as Police Sergeant, Pat Gorman as Police Constable, and John Tatum as Plain Clothes Policeman.

Charles Jarrott’s films also include: Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Mary Queen of Scots (1971), Lost Horizon (1973), The Dove (1974), The Other Side of Midnight (1977), Escape form the Dark [The Littlest Horse Thieves] (1977), Last Flight of Noah’s Ark (1980), Condorman (1981), The Amateur (1981).

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