So Well Remembered

A British and American cast struggles to make this long, slow movie into something more than the soap opera it is. Told in flashback on the eve of the victory in Europe in WW II, it's a multilayered story of several people in the small Lancashire town of Browdley, England. Scott is a vicious, greedy woman whose father was sent to jail as an extortionist. She's now married to Mills, a newspaper editor-publisher who has taken the side of the local mill workers in a labor squabble. Mills is a popular man due to his stance and Scott pushes him into running for Parliament. A diphtheria epidemic breaks out, and Mills finds that more important than his campaign so he uses...