Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Chris Gaskin I taped Lost when Channel 4 screened one afternoon recently and is a well shot mystery-thriller.A nanny who is looking after an American couple's 18 month old son leaves him outside a shop and finds him gone when she returns. Police are informed and so are the mum and dad. The search takes them all over London and then onto the South coast where we find out who the kidnapper is and worse still, is planning to jump off a cliff...Lost is beautifully shot in colour and on location, around London and on Beachy Head. We also get to see the old types of transport, especially the old London RT-type double deck buses and the coach station sequence features old coaches of famous and long disappeared names such as Southdown and Midland Red. We see some old Southern Region electric trains too. I wished time machines really existed.A good cast too: David Farrar, Julia Arnall, David Knight, singer Eleanor Summerfield, Thora Hird (Last of the Summer Wine) and bit parts from Joan Hickson (Miss Marple), Shirly Anne Field and Robert Brown (who replaced Bernard Lee as M in the Bond movies).Lost is an excellent way to spend an hour and half one afternoon or evening. A treat.Rating: 4 stars out of 5.

bob the moo While Lee and Sue Cochrane are out at work, their nanny is out in the park with their baby, Simon. Leaving his pram outside a shop when she pops in to buy some supplies, the nanny is horrified to leave the shop and find the pram missing. The police are immediately alerted and Detective Inspector Craig is put on the case – picking up what few leads there are and willing to consider even the thinnest of clues. Meanwhile Lee and Sue cannot contain themselves and set out to try and find Simon themselves, also following any sliver of information that comes from any source.At the time this subject a child stolen away in a public place) must have seemed like the worst nightmare but also unrealistic enough to provide some security. Nowadays the subject is all too common and very publicly reported – this makes the film a lot more relevant but also a lot less realistic since we know that this is not how these investigations go and, sadly, a lot of the most public cases end up with the child being found dead and abused rather than saved. This film opens with an oh-so-dated society of nannies with prams, green parks and married couples in single beds (where did Simon come from? Or was it just that once?) but launches straight into the tension with Simon being taken. The general air of tension is kept up but the plot doesn't do enough to help it by mixing it up with a light air and having a few too many red herrings without providing a satisfying narrative drive.Maybe I'm being picky but the calm air of the police and public was a bit unconvincing and it made it harder to believe that they would calmly pick through bins looking for clues as their first course of action. Of course I know this is what they would do in the situation (or crawl across the area on hands and knees) but the air of calm was a real turn off. The hysteria of the parents is fine but the Nancy Drew investigation they go off on is silly and wastes the chance to really get to grips with the myriad of emotions that parents must feel in this situation. I would have preferred the film to have the police get into a tense race against time while the parents struggled with helplessness, guilt, anger, pain and turning on one another – that would have been more interesting that having them really involved in the case, the parents on the news over the past few years seem far too shell-shocked to do anything like running round the woods!The cast are average, mostly being far too wooden and unemotional. Farrar is a strong chinned lead but no more than that at any time; he and Knight have a bit of a p*ssing contest to see who can puff their chest out the furthest and be the most 'manly', but it only makes for unconvincing roles for the audience. Arnall is OK considering it was her first screen role, and she draws the emotion out well – if only she had been given more time to does this as a focus and not an aside. In the support cast is a surprisingly amount of famous British faces looking all a bit young – an unmistakable Barbara Winsor, Joan Sims and Thora Hird are the main ones but quite a few bit players are wheeled out to provide red herrings – in fact I wonder if the fact that they were well-known could have been deliberate to make the audience think they were bigger parts of the mystery?Overall this is an OK thriller but the stiff upper lip and rather calm approach takes away from the tension it should have had. The story is a bit weak and unconvincing and doesn't really deliver the goods in terms of the overall narrative and the development of characters and emotions but it does the job well enough for a rather dated piece of entertainment. Worth seeing if it's a dull Saturday afternoon.

Andrew_S_Hatton This was when us Brits still had stiff lips and knew "our place".It is no wonder Yanks get such a false picture of the Brits from this sort of stuff.Nonetheless it reeks of nostalgia. You can almost smell the leather on the car seats!I particularly liked the view of all the 1955 coaches lined up at Victoria Coach Station, London. That coach station is still there in the hub of west London, awkwardly located for any of us on the east of the country but the place that remains the hub of coaches throughout the UK.I spotted a very young and almost good looking Dandy Nichols, I suppose this must be what she looked like when Alf Garnett (Till death us do part!) fell for her!One senses they were trying to be trendy and "with it" with the female CID officer who was a sergeant already. A very enjoyable time was had by all even though the main characters were unfamiliar, even to an oldster like me.

lorenellroy The plot of this movie deals with what is quite possibly the worst nightmare for any parent-the abduction of their child.The child is snatched while being looked after by its nanny;its upper middle class parents are distraught and the boys in blue swing into action.Dated social attitudes and the kind of behaviour that is so stiff upper lip it comes across as a Monty Python parody are drawbacks, as are some wooden lead performances but the location photography is good and the direction admirable .The -literally-cliffhanger climax is gripping and the movie passses muster as a modest and engrossing minor thriller