Noose (1948 film)
Appearance
Noose | |
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Directed by | Edmond T. Gréville |
Written by | Richard Llewellyn (play and screenplay) |
Produced by | Edward Dryhurst |
Starring | Carole Landis Derek Farr Joseph Calleia Stanley Holloway Nigel Patrick |
Cinematography | Hone Glendining |
Edited by | David Newhouse |
Music by | Charles Williams |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Pathé Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £136,500[1] |
Box office | £163,159 (UK)[2] |
Noose (released in the United States as The Silk Noose) is a 1948 British crime film, directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, and Derek Farr.[3]
It was shot at Teddington Studios with sets designed by the art director Bernard Robinson.
Plot
Set in the then contemporary post-war
racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancé and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. The normally gentlemanly and urbane Nigel Patrick is cast as a cockney spiv
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The gangs hang around Bason's Gymnasium and Sugiani's nightclub, The Blue Moon. Sugiani has worked his way up from the gutter since arriving in Britain from Italy.
Cast
- Carole Landis as Linda Medbury
- Joseph Calleia as Sugiani
- Derek Farr as Captain Jumbo Holle
- Stanley Holloway as Inspector Rendall
- Nigel Patrick as Bar ("Gorm") Gorman
- John Slater as Pudd'n Bason
- Edward Rigby as Slush
- Leslie Bradley as Basher
- Reginald Tate as The Editor
- Hay Petrie as The Barber
- John Salew as Greasey Anderson
- Ruth Nixon as Annie Foss
- Carol van Derman as Marcia Lane
Background
Noose was written by
spiv films produced between 1945 and 1950 in Britain.[3]
Reception
Trade papers called the film a "notable box office attraction" in British cinemas in 1948.[4] As of 1 April 1950 the film earned distributor's gross receipts of £119,229 in the UK of which £74,918 went to the producer.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ a b Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 355.
- ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p487
- ^ a b Noose at BFI Screenonline
- ^ Robert Murphy, Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 2003 p211
External links
- [1] from the British Film Institute
- [2] BBC
- Review of film at Variety