“Mason is the possessive guardian of a young, talented pianist, a role played with grace and enormous truth by Ann Todd. The movie--a story of domination and cruelty--has a marvelous twist which this note won't spoil. Suffice it to say that I recall seeing it at a most unsuitably young age and even now the ‘piano scene' with Mason saying, ‘If you won't play for me, then you won't play for anyone', stays in the mind. They really don't make them like that anymore.” Brian Baxter, for National Film Theatre, London's 1981 James Mason Tribute