Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Chris Gaskin I taped Lost when Channel 4 screened one afternoon recently and is a well shot mystery-thriller.A nanny who is looking after an American couple's 18 month old son leaves him outside a shop and finds him gone when she returns. Police are informed and so are the mum and dad. The search takes them all over London and then onto the South coast where we find out who the kidnapper is and worse still, is planning to jump off a cliff...Lost is beautifully shot in colour and on location, around London and on Beachy Head. We also get to see the old types of transport, especially the old London RT-type double deck buses and the coach station sequence features old coaches of famous and long disappeared names such as Southdown and Midland Red. We see some old Southern Region electric trains too. I wished time machines really existed.A good cast too: David Farrar, Julia Arnall, David Knight, singer Eleanor Summerfield, Thora Hird (Last of the Summer Wine) and bit parts from Joan Hickson (Miss Marple), Shirly Anne Field and Robert Brown (who replaced Bernard Lee as M in the Bond movies).Lost is an excellent way to spend an hour and half one afternoon or evening. A treat.Rating: 4 stars out of 5.

tarquinbattersbysmythe The plot is centered around a young baby being kidnapped and the parents David Knight and Julia Arnall plus Detective David Farrar's efforts to find the missing infant. Knight is the token American that seemed to be the staple of any British film of that time, you just gotta have a Yank in this Rank. Julia Arnall is a stunner; a German model signed by Rank but unfortunately not the best of actresses her contract didn't last long. A shame because with her looks she was almost in the Grace Kelly class. The tension builds nicely and there is a virtual parade of character actors and actresses that appeared in so many British films of the period. I was a boy of 11 when this film was made and it adds to the enjoyment to see cars, trucks and buses of that time in colour instead of the usual black and white.

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.

Andrew_S_Hatton This was when us Brits still had stiff lips and knew "our place".It is no wonder Yanks get such a false picture of the Brits from this sort of stuff.Nonetheless it reeks of nostalgia. You can almost smell the leather on the car seats!I particularly liked the view of all the 1955 coaches lined up at Victoria Coach Station, London. That coach station is still there in the hub of west London, awkwardly located for any of us on the east of the country but the place that remains the hub of coaches throughout the UK.I spotted a very young and almost good looking Dandy Nichols, I suppose this must be what she looked like when Alf Garnett (Till death us do part!) fell for her!One senses they were trying to be trendy and "with it" with the female CID officer who was a sergeant already. A very enjoyable time was had by all even though the main characters were unfamiliar, even to an oldster like me.