Midnight Menace (1937 film)
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| Directed by | Sinclair Hill |
| Written by | Alexander Mackendrick Roger MacDougall George Moresby-White D.B. Wyndham-Lewis |
| Produced by | Harcourt Templeman |
| Starring | Charles Farrell Margaret Vyner Fritz Kortner |
| Cinematography | Cyril Bristow |
| Edited by | John E. Morris |
| Music by | John Reynders |
Production company | Grosvenor Films |
| Distributed by | Associated British Film Distributors |
Release date | 1 July 1937 |
Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Midnight Menace is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Charles Farrell, Margaret Vyner, Fritz Kortner and Danny Green. The screenplay concerns an international arms manufacturing firm's plans to start a war in Europe by bombing London.[1] It was released in the United States as Bombs Over London.
Production
The film was made at Pinewood Studios.[2] Its original script was written by Alexander Mackendrick.[3] The film's sets were designed by Wilfred Arnold.
Cast
- Charles Farrell as Brian Gaunt
- Margaret Vyner as Mary Stevens
- Fritz Kortner as Peters
- Danny Green as Socks
- Wallace Evennett as Smith
- Monti DeLyle as Pierre
- Dino Galvani as Tony
- Arthur Finn as Mac, Newspaper Editor
- Laurence Hanray as Sir George, Lead Conspirator
- Arthur Gomez as Baron von Kleisch, Delegate
- Raymond Lovell as Harris
- Evan John as Doctor Marsh
- Reynes Barton as Conference President
- Terence O'Brien as Secret Agent Fearns
- Dennis Val Norton as Vronsky, Peters' Aide
- Billy Bray as Banks
- Sydney King as Graham Stevens
- Andreas Malandrinos as Zadek
- Victor Tandy as Groves
References
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42568
- ^ Wood p.91
- ^ Philip Kemp, Lethal Innocence : The Cinema of Alexander Mackendrick, London, Methuen, 1991, p. 6-7.
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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