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Writer:
Sam Newfield (writer)
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Release Date:
26 December 1952 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Plot:
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Dane Clark ... Jim Forster
Kathleen Byron ... Pat
Naomi Chance ... Lady Susan Willens
Meredith Edwards ... Dave Davies
Anthony Forwood ... Lord Peter Willens

Eric Pohlmann ... Arturo Colonna
Enzo Coticchia ... Angelo Colonna
Julian Somers ... Licasi, club manager
Anthony Ireland ... Richard Farning
Thomas Gallagher ... Sam
Max Bacon ... Maxie
Mona Washbourne ... Miss Minter
Jane Griffiths ... Lady Jane Greer
Richard Shaw ... Louis
George Pastell ... Jacko Spina
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Runtime:
72 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England, UK
Company:
Hammer Film Productions more

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Elements of film noir in a melodrama, 10 February 2008
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Author: David (Handlinghandel) from NY, NY

There's plenty of crime in this Lippert picture. It opens with a well shot killing that is not clear till well into the movie. Dane Clark is the star. He was a staple of film noir. Here, we also see him in a top hat!

Yes, the subject is more class than crime. Clark is the gambler of the tile. (The female title character doesn't appear till almost half an hour into the movie.) He's an American but he wants to fit in in England. He's taking lessons in deportment from a caricature of a British lady.

He has a Scottish pal (Meredith Edwards) who is put forward as his butler. He longs to become accepted by nobility.

The supporting cast is good. The woman he falls for is not particularly charismatic but she's attractive. The more conventionally low-life types are plausible.

The dialog contains a lot of blatant exposition: "It's hard to believe that X years ago I was in Y with Z and while A B were ..."

It's well shot and holds the attention. But it's nothing to write (back) home about.

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