So Well Remembered is a 1947 British drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring John Mills, Martha Scott, and Trevor Howard.

[2] The film was based on James Hilton's 1945 novel of the same title and tells the story of a reformer and the woman he marries in a fictional mill town in Lancashire.

Her father, the mill owner John Channing (Frederick Leister), has been sent to prison for almost 20 years for speculating with, and losing, many townspeople's money.

He has Dr Richard Whiteside (Trevor Howard) drive him into town to speak to George, but they crash on a washed-out road and John is killed.

Early in the Second World War a widowed Olivia returns, takes up residence in her father's mansion and reopens the Channing mill.

As now told, it is the story of the struggles of a small humanitarian—a newspaper editor and town councilor in a drab Lancashire mill town—not only against the forces of inhuman commercial greed but mainly against the persuasions and obstructions of his selfish and ambitious wife...he first grasps the nature of her voracity when she takes the reactionary side against his tireless efforts to obtain better housing and sanitation for the town.

But certainly the fundamental conflict between the ideal of human welfare and the rot of greed has been vividly kept in the foreground by John Paxton… And the natures and credibility of the characters have been consistently proportioned throughout ….

Mr. Dmytryk, working in conjunction with Adrian Scott, … has accomplished a superior creation in the realistic style.” Crowther praised the actors, including the “smaller parts (which) are, as usual, sharply played.

Taken from James Hilton's novel, it seems to have lost all the drama it should have retained and to have retained all the verbiage it should have lost.. ..people do not talk as they do in books, not even Mr. Hilton's books,… it is very unusual for a man to say more than four sentences at a time without interruption; but (this film) is liberally dosed …with phrases so lengthily and beautifully formulated as to be altogether out of this world.“ As to the performances: “….Everybody knows John Mills has enough charm to knock the birds off the trees, and so has Trevor Howard, but… they are only allowed a very few feet of charm.

Martha Scott has an unpleasant part which she plays with spirit….Although I may be the last critic to pen it, I would like to record that I, too, thought of saying that So Well Remembered will be So Easily Forgotten, that I, too, have my moments of lightning wit in the bath.”[5] According to trade papers, the film was a "notable box office attraction" at British cinemas in 1947.