Death Goes to School
Death Goes to School | |
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Directed by | Stephen Clarkson |
Written by | Maisie Sharman Stephen Clarkson |
Based on | novel Death in Seven Hours by Stratford Davis |
Produced by | Victor Hanbury |
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Cinematography | Eric Cross |
Edited by | Peter Seabourne |
Music by | De Wolfe |
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Distributed by | Eros Films (UK) |
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Running time | 64 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Death Goes to School is a 1953 British mystery film directed by Stephen Clarkson and starring Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson and Pamela Alan.[1][2] It was made at Merton Park Studios as a second feature.
Plot
Police investigate the death of a tyrannical teacher at a girls school, where any number of people might have killed the dead woman.
Cast
- Barbara Murray as Miss Shepherd
- Gordon Jackson as Detective Inspector Campbell
- Pamela Alan as Miss Helen Cooper
- Jane Aird as Miss M. Halstead
- Beatrice Varley as Miss Hopkinson
- Anne Butchart as Miss Oliphant
- Imogene Moynihan as Miss Essex
- Jenine Matto as Miss Stanislaus
- Sam Kydd as Sergeant Harvey
- Robert Long as Mr. Lawley
- Nina Parry as Mary
- Stanley Rose as Inspector Burgess
- Enid Stewart as Mrs. White
- Julie Stewart as Mrs. White
- Sandra Whipp as Brenda
- Pauline Winter as Mrs. Lawley
Reception
Kinematograph Weekly said: "Unhurried but reasonably well acted, it holds the interest even if it fails to chill the spine".[3]
Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "As a thriller this is poor, the successive interviewing of the suspects one by one inducing positive tedium. The film, however, has one bright aspect: the amusing caricature of girls' school life it provides."[4]
In British Sound Films David Quinlan describes the film as: "Verbose, monotonous whodunnit" [5]
References
- ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
- ^ "Death Goes to School (1953) - Stephen Clarkson | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
- ^ "Death Goes to School". Kinematograph Weekly. 433 (2391): 7. 23 April 1953.
- ^ "Death Goes to School". Monthly Film Bulletin. 20 (228): 89. 1 January 1935.
- ^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 299. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.
External links
- Death Goes to School at IMDb
- Death Goes to School at ReelStreets