Double Exposures
Double Exposures | |
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Directed by | John Paddy Carstairs |
Written by | Gerald Elliott |
Produced by | George King |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Hone Glendinning |
Edited by | John Seabourne Sr. |
Music by | Jack Beaver |
Production company | George King Productions (as Triangle Film Productions) |
Distributed by | Paramount British Pictures (U.K.) |
Release date |
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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 David Langton, Julien Mitchell and Ruby Miller.[1] It was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie.[2] (David Langton is credited under the name Basil Langton, his birth name being Basil Muir Langton-Dodds. He later changed his acting name to David as there was another actor called Basil Langton.)
Plot
[edit]Reporter Peter Bradfield is fired from his newspaper for failing to deliver an interview with big businessman Hector Rodman. Plucky Bradfield subsequently becomes a photographic equipment salesman, and accidentally takes photos of two men in conversation. Unbeknown 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 for the crime.
Cast
[edit]- David Langton (under the name 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Double Exposures (1937)". Archived from the original on 1 December 2016.
- ^ Wood p.94
- ^ "Double Exposures".
- ^ "Alibi breaker (1937)". 20 January 2011.
Bibliography
[edit]- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
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- 1937 films
- British crime films
- 1937 crime films
- Films shot at Shepperton Studios
- Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs
- Films set in England
- Quota quickies
- Films scored by Jack Beaver
- British black-and-white films
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s British films
- English-language crime films
- 1930s British film stubs