Menace (1934 American film)
| Menace | |
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| Directed by | Ralph Murphy |
| Written by | Chandler Sprague Anthony Veiller |
| Based on | Menace by Philip MacDonald |
| Produced by | Bayard Veiller Emanuel Cohen |
| Starring | Gertrude Michael Paul Cavanagh Henrietta Crosman |
| Cinematography | Ben F. Reynolds |
| Edited by | Anne Bauchens |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 58 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Menace is a 1934 American
New York Times considered "it ranks several notches higher than the average murder film".[4]
Plot
In Kenya in
socialites Helen Chalmers and Norman Bellamy as well as British Army colonel Leonard Crecy need a fourth for bridge. They persuade engineer Freddie Bastion to leave the dam he is supposed to be supervising to join them. On his plane journey back a thunderstorm destroys the damn, drowning Bastion's two sisters, and causing his plane to crash. In London Timothy Bastion, the dead man's brother, is driven mad with grief and sent to a lunatic asylum
.
Escaping, Timothy sends threatening letters to the three people he considers responsible for the tragedy, promising to kill them. Two years after the disaster, the three are all gathered at a
country estate
in California owned by Helen. Timothy has managed to conceal himself either amongst the servants and guests to the house, seeking murderous revenge.
Cast
- Gertrude Michael as Helen Chalmers
- Paul Cavanagh as Col. Leonard Crecy
- Henrietta Crosman as Sybil Thornton
- John Lodgeas Ronald Cavendish
- Ray Milland as Freddie Bastion
- Berton Churchill as Norman Bellamy
- Halliwell Hobbes as Skinner
- Robert Allenas Andrew Forsythe
- Forrester Harvey as Wilcox
- Montagu Love as Police Inspector
- Arletta Duncan as Gloria Chalmers
- Gwenllian Gill as Alison Bastion
- Doris Llewelyn as Cynthia Bastion
- Desmond Roberts as Underwood
- Blue Washington as Kenyan Manservant
- Arthur Clayton as Police Officer
References
- ISBN 978-1-4766-1089-4.
- ^ Goble p.298
- ^ McKay p.47
- ^ McKay p.48
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- McKay, James. Ray Milland: The Films, 1929-1984. McFarland, 2020.
External links
- Menace at IMDb
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