UK Release date: 12 August 1948
First Melbourne Saturday Suburban: 27 June 1950
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Running time: 112 minutes
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim & Fay Compton
Australian Distributor: GBDFD
Melbourne Premiere Venue: Independent Australia Cinema for five weeks from 11 November 1949 with Love’s In Waiting as support.
Suburban Release Type: Suburban Box Hill Rialto EX-1
Rankings
| Rank | ||
| EF Points | 12 | 344 |
| EF PPE | 3.00 | 177 |
| Metres Travelled | 45,587 | 347 |
| Average MT | 11,397 | 28 |
| Engagements | 4 | 345 |
| Slots | 4 | 349 |
| Weeks | 0 | 338* |
| Weeks as % of engagements | 0.00% | 338* |
| Saturdays | 0 | 348* |
| Sats as % of engagements | 0.00% | 348* |
| Tuesdays | 4 | 281 |
| Tues as % of engagements | 100.00% | 1 |
| First billed | 4 | 196 |
| Second billed | 0 | 293* |
| Feature only | 0 | 34* |
Independent ratios
| Engagements weeks 1-10 | 4 |
| Ratio | 100.00% |
| Difference to chain ratio | 13.33% |
| Eng weeks 11-26 | 0 |
| Ratio | 0.00% |
| Difference to chain ratio | -7.62% |
| Eng weeks 27-52 | 0 |
| Ratio | 0.00% |
| Difference to chain ratio | -5.71% |
| Hoyts eng | 0 |
| Ratio | 0.00% |
| Difference to chain ratio | -0.84% |
| Independent eng | 3 |
| Ratio | 75.00% |
| Difference to chain ratio | -2.11% |
| Suburban eng | 1 |
| Ratio | 25.00% |
| Difference to chain ratio | 2.95% |
Notes: This one is a head-scratcher. A hit in the UK, a starry cast, quality director and based on a best-selling novel. A GBDFD release, yet Hoyts passed it to the Australia to screen before Christmas, for a strong return of 5 weeks…and then…basically nothing. It never played a Hoyts theatre and very few theatres at all. Oddly, it turned up in some western suburbs venues (the Roxy Maidstone, for example) that are not included in this survey before its eventual quiet Tuesday opening at the Box Hill Rialto. A mystery for sure. In any case, only four bookings, all on Tuesdays (placing it at #1 for Tuesdays as a % of all bookings) and all top billed.
London Belongs to Me engagements
| SUBURB | VENUE | CHAIN | DATE | W | D | B | CO-FEATURE |
| Box Hill | Rialto | Suburban | 24/6/50 | 1 | T | 1 | Always Another Dawn |
| Preston East | Gowerville | Independent | 15/7/50 | 4 | T | 1 | Time Off |
| North Richmond | Victoria | Independent | 22/7/50 | 5 | T | 1 | Devil’s Cargo |
| Elwood | Broadway | Independent | 12/8/50 | 8 | T | 1 | Argyle Secrets |
The 1950 Project 