Film Preview – Bognor Regis Observer – Friday, 26 February 1954

THE PAVILION, SELSEY. "MEET ME TO-NIGHT" is a gay British Technicolor comedy which leads to an investigation into a diamond smuggling racket, based on Noel Coward's play. "To-night at 8.30." The film is divided into three short stories. In the first, Kay Walsh and Ted Ray portray a married couple who run a corny variety act. Chaos comes to the theatre in which they are Singin' in the Rain," has the feminine starring role as a girl, who appearing when the musical director maliciously speeds up the music to confuse the artists, goes to college with the intention of learning everything but whose knowledge is confined chiefly to romance. In the second story. Stanley Holloway plays a long-suffering husband who decides one day that he has taken more than he can stand from his wife (Betty Ann Davies) and his mother-in-law. In the third episode, Valerie Hobson and Nigel Patrick are a gay, reckless couple who get into financial difficulties. They try to persuade a burglar (Jack Warner) to use his talents on their behalf. Audie Murphy portrays the outlaw Jesse James in "KANSAS RAIDERS." The story concerns a band of five horsemen, all under the age of 21, who join a guerilla band in the West whose object is to burn and loot towns. Claude Rains. Marta Toren, Marius Goring and Anouk appear in the drama, "THE MAN WHO WATCHED THE TRAINS GO BY," a British Technicolor production adapted from a story by Georges Simenon. The plot concerns a little Dutch shipping clerk who suffers from a peculiar delusion of grandeur. He comes under the influence of a Parisian good-time girl who plans to get his money. The affection of a shop assistant who befriends the Dutchman when he has nowhere to go is, by contrast, sincere.