Double Exposures
Double Exposures | |
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Directed by | John Paddy Carstairs |
Produced by | George King |
Written by | Gerald Elliott |
Starring |
Basil Langton Julien Mitchell Ruby Miller |
Music by | Jack Beaver |
Cinematography | Hone Glendinning |
Edited by | John Seabourne Sr. |
Production company |
George King Productions (as Triangle Film Productions) |
Distributed by | Paramount British Pictures (U.K.) |
Release dates | May 1937 |
Running time | 67 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Double Exposures (A.K.A. Alibi Breaker) is a 1937 British crime film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Basil Langton, Julien Mitchell and Ruby Miller.[1] It was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie.[2]
Plot
Reporter Peter Bradfield (Basil Langton) is fired from his newspaper for failing to deliver an interview with big businessman Hector Rodman (Julien Mitchell). Plucky Bradfield subsequently becomes a photographic equipment salesman, and accidentally takes photos of two men in conversation. Unbeknownst to him, these men are the businessmen's lawyer and his secretary, and are plotting to embezzle a fortune in bonds from Rodman, and planning to frame his workshy son George (George Astley) for the crime.
Cast
- Basil Langton as Peter Bradfield
- Julien Mitchell as Hector Rodman
- Ruby Miller as Mrs. Rodman
- Brian Buchel as Geoffrey Cranswick
- Mavis Clair as Jill Rodman
- Fred Withers as Allbutt
- Ivor Barnard as Mather
- George Astley as George Rodman
- Frank Birch as Kempton
- Denis Cowles as Police Inspector
Critical reception
TV Guide called the film a "Negligible British effort";[3] while Nineacre called it a "Cheap but cheerful film, mainly due to Langton who plays a flippant gadabout town that populated these sorts of film." [4]
References
- ↑ http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a9265c3
- ↑ Wood p.94
- ↑ http://www.tvguide.com/movies/double-exposures/review/113321/
- ↑ http://nineacre.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/alibi-breaker-1937.html
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.