{"id":17811,"date":"2025-08-31T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17811"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:17:17","slug":"a-diary-for-timothy-the-stranger-left-no-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17811","title":{"rendered":"A Diary for Timothy &#038; The Stranger Left No Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A Diary for Timothy<\/em> (1945, Humphrey Jennings)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Narrator explains to Baby Tim on his birthday &#8211; also the fifth anniversary of Britain entering WWII &#8211; what we&#8217;re fighting for, and how we&#8217;ve got a difficult recovery ahead.  He sketches out the next six months, closing by asking whether the kid will make the world a better place (spoiler: he did not).  Starts out as boring wartime propaganda and gets increasingly complex, until by the end I almost see why this keeps popping up on best-movie lists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Stranger Left No Card<\/em> (1952, Wendy Toye)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;d never seen anything like me before,&#8221; says the stranger, an overly facial-haired street magician, but that&#8217;s because Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals hadn&#8217;t been invented yet.  All the townspeople take interest in this guy as he runs around being whimsical.  Some sync sound issues, but mostly narrated by our self-delighted stranger (Alan Badel of <em>Day of the Jackal<\/em> and <em>Children of the Damned<\/em>).  After establishing himself all week as someone who shows up everywhere playing harmless tricks, he shows up in a contractor&#8217;s office at closing time and revenge-kills the guy for sending him to prison years earlier.  It&#8217;s the perfect crime, but it&#8217;s also the 1950s so he can&#8217;t quite get away clean, leaving a trail of glitter to the train as he&#8217;s leaving town.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/nocard1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/nocard2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Diary for Timothy (1945, Humphrey Jennings) Narrator explains to Baby Tim on his birthday &#8211; also the fifth anniversary of Britain entering WWII &#8211; what we&#8217;re fighting for, and how we&#8217;ve got a difficult recovery ahead. He sketches out the next six months, closing by asking whether the kid will make the world a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1313,631,904,144,3427,472],"class_list":["post-17811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-double-feature","tag-perfect-crime","tag-propaganda","tag-revenge","tag-wendy-toye","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17862,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17811\/revisions\/17862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}