Tonight's Movie: Time is My Enemy (1954) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review

My latest Brit Noir viewing is TIME IS MY ENEMY (1954), from from the Kino Lorber Brit Noir Collection IV.TIME IS MY ENEMY is quick 64 minutes which rather reminded me of another lean, mean British crime film, the 69-minute WALK A TIGHTROPE (1963).The movie also calls to mind aspects of NO MAN OF HER OWN (1950), as far as a man from a woman's past showing up to blackmail her, culminating in a "murky" shooting.TIME IS MY ENEMY was written by Alan McKinnon based on the play SECOND CHANCE by Ella Adkins. It's the story of Barbara Everton (Renee Asherson), who is happily married to John (Patrick Barr), a publisher, and leading a comfortable life. Barbara and John have a young son away at boarding school.Out of the blue Barbara's first husband, Martin Radley (Dennis Price), thought to have been killed during the London Blitz, shows up on her doorstep.Martin is a crook looking for money, and Barbara panics at the thought that she's unknowingly a bigamist with an illegitimate child, so she…

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