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Passenger to London is a 1937 British espionage thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring John Warwick, Jenny Laird and Nigel Barrie. It was shot at Wembley Studios in London as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox.[1]
| Passenger to London | |
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| Directed by | Lawrence Huntington |
| Written by | David Evans |
| Produced by | Lawrence Huntington |
| Starring | John Warwick Jenny Laird Nigel Barrie |
| Cinematography | Stanley Grant |
| Edited by | Peter Tanner |
| Music by | Charles Cowlrick |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 57 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Cast
edit- John Warwick as Frank Drayton
- Jenny Laird as Barbara Lane
- Paul Neville as Vautel
- Ivan Wilmot as Veinberg
- Aubrey Pollock as Sir James Garfield
- Victor Hagen as Carlton
- Nigel Barrie as Sir Donald Frame
- Sybil Brooke as Miss Park
- Dorothy Dewhurst as Manageress
Reception
editPicturegoer considered the storyline as "too obvious" and the film being "too slow to be fully effective".[2]
References
edit- ^ Chibnall p.296
- ^ "Passenger to London". Pictuegoer. Vol. 7, no. 342. 11 December 1937. p. 31 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Bibliography
edit- Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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