Midnight Menace

Not to be co fused with the 1946 film of the same name starring Lollypop Jones

Midnight Menace
Directed bySinclair Hill
Produced byHarcourt Templeman
Written byAlexander Mackendrick
Roger MacDougall
George Moresby-White
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
StarringCharles Farrell
Margaret Vyner
Fritz Kortner
Music byJohn Reynders
CinematographyCyril Bristow
Edited byJohn E. Morris
Production
company
Grosvenor Films
Distributed byAssociated British Film Distributors
Release date
1 July 1937
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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

References

  1. BFI.org
  2. Wood p.91
  3. 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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