I Believe in You

Henry Phipps has retired from the colonial service. He does not want to sit idle. He takes work as a probation officer. He finds it harder than he expected. Real lives come across his desk. An experienced colleague works alongside him. The two carry the cases together. The film runs several stories at once. Many of them belong to young people. Some have fallen into crime and some have simply lost their way. The telling stays close to documentary, and the production came out of Ealing. It is drawn from Sewell Stokes’s book Court Circular. Celia Johnson, Cecil Parker, Joan Collins and Laurence Harvey appear in the ninety five minute film, a British production Basil Dearden and Michael Relph finished in 1952.