My Sister and I (also known as High Pavement) is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold Huth and starring Sally Ann Howes, Barbara Mullen, Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Martita Hunt and Patrick Holt. It was written by Michael Medwin, A.R. Rawlinson, Joan Rees and Robert Westerby based on the 1944 novel High Pavement by Emery Bonett.
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Plot summary
A young woman who acts in a small theatre comes under suspicion of murder when the elderly lady she lodges with dies and leaves her all her money.
Cast
Sally Ann Howes as Robina Adams
Dermot Walsh as Graham Forbes
Martita Hunt as Mrs. Camelot
Barbara Mullen as Hypatia Foley
Patrick Holt as Roger Crisp
Hazel Court as Helena Forsythe
Joan Rees as Ardath Bondage
Jane Hylton as Elsie
Michael Medwin as Charlie
Rory MacDermot as Michael Marsh
Hugh Miller as Hubert Bondage
Ian Wilson as Horsnell
Niall Lawlor as Harry
Elizabeth Sydney as Phyllis
Jack Vyvian as Pomfret
Helen Goss as Mrs. Pomfret
Stewart Rome as Colonel Thursby
Olwen Brookes as Mrs. Lippincott
Wilfrid Caithness as Coroner
John Miller as Bishop
Amy Dalby as female cleaner
James Knight as dustman
Barbara Leake as first elderly woman
Diana Dors as dreary girl
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "As is so frequently the case, the story suffers somewhat by its translation to the screen; there is insufficient time in which fully to develop the various characters and circumstances surrounding them, to make the probability of their guilt seem credible. Viewed without the, in this case, disadvantage of having read the book, it is quite a good average amongst films of its type, and the mystery is well preserved until the end."
Kine Weekly wrote: "Bizarre murder mystery melodrama ... The play is poor in conception and never comes to life until the sensational last reel, while the acting, a mixture of experience and the immature, accentuates the novelettish make-up of the tale. A pretentious pot-boiler, it's a proposition mainly for the industrial element and sticks."
Picture Show wrote: "Apart from Sally Ann Howes and Martita Hunt, the acting is stilted, and the film seldom convinces."
Variety wrote: "This is a feeble, high-schoolish production, with not much chance here or abroad."