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Midnight Menace (1937 film)

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Midnight Menace
Directed bySinclair Hill
Written by
Produced byHarcourt Templeman
Starring
CinematographyCyril Bristow
Edited byJohn E. Morris
Music byJohn Reynders
Production
company
Grosvenor Films
Distributed byAssociated British Film Distributors
Release date
  • 1 July 1937 (1937-07-01)
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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Wood p.91
  3. ^ Philip Kemp, Lethal Innocence : The Cinema of Alexander Mackendrick, London, Methuen, 1991, p. 6-7.

Bibliography

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  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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