Michael Powell

[Beloved Aunt]

i have to wonder, without knowing it, how much what was for me so charming in the script came from the book its based on. Jennifer Jones is so fascinating, although it seems like she can be a somewhat "mid", just-okay actress at times, i felt that way to a modest degree about her turn in GtE, at least partially, although she was also definitely a lot better than that in other parts of the film. I don't really know what to make of the fact that during the sequence at the county fair, that the singing by JJ and harp-playing by her father that everyone around them is so gobsmacked by, weren't really all that much better than the pathetic "orchestra" they were upstaging.

I was going to say...
Spoiler
...seems to happen quite a bit in Powell & Pressburger's films. I can think of four incidents right off the top of my head, all towards the end.

In Gone to Earth, it felt so much like lazy self-plagiarization and we-can't-think-of-something-better-than-this I couldn't even believe it. I wonder if it actually came from the book though? The rest of the film is way better than the ending, if you ask me.