River Beat
| River Beat | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Guy Green |
| Written by | Rex Rienits |
| Produced by | Herman Cohen Victor Hanbury |
| Starring | John Bentley Phyllis Kirk Leonard White Glyn Houston |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Faithfull |
| Edited by | Peter Graham Scott |
| Music by | Hubert Clifford |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Eros Films (UK) Lippert Pictures (US) |
Release date | February 1954 |
Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
River Beat is a 1954 British noir, drama, crime film directed by Guy Green and starring John Bentley, Phyllis Kirk and Leonard White.[1] The screenplay concerns a river police inspector who faces a moral dilemma when a woman he knows gets caught up in jewel smuggling.
Cast
- John Bentley as Detective Inspector Dan Barker
- Phyllis Kirk as Judy Roberts
- Leonard White as Detective Sergeant Mack McLeod
- Glyn Houston as Charlie Williamson
- Patrick Jordan as Bert Fisher
- Robert Ayres as Watford
- Ewan Roberts as Customs Inspector J.S. Blake
- David Hurst as Paddy McClure
- Charles Lloyd-Pack as John Hendrick
- Isabel George as Anna
- Margaret Anderson as Nell, Charlie's girl
- Harold Ayer as Joseph Benson, alias Alfred Gordon
- Tony Hilton as Harry, the bartender
- Colin Douglas as Harbor Patrol superintendent
- Bill Nagy as Eddie, deckhand
- Michael Browning as Detective Perry
- Michael Balfour as Adams, sailor
- Peter Collingwood as Coroner
Reception
Variety said "The programmer market, currently short of passable supporting filmfare, will find this London-localed melodrama an acceptable filler... Miss Kirk provides a casting switch to the Anglo-American film efforts Lippert usually releases. Heretofore it has been an Ameri-can male in England, and mixed up with Scotland Yard and British crooks... The plotting is contrived and every- thing drops too patly into place as the 70 minutes unfold."[2]
References
- ^ BFI.org
- ^ Review of film at Variety
Bibliography
- Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. The British 'B' Film. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
External links
- River Beat at IMDb
- River Beat at BFI
- River Beat at Letterbox DVD
- River Beat at TCMDB
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