Midnight Menace (1937 film)

{{short description|1937 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Midnight Menace

| image = Midnight Menace.jpg

| caption =

| director = Sinclair Hill

| producer = Harcourt Templeman

| writer = {{ubl|Alexander Mackendrick|Roger MacDougall|George Moresby-White|D.B. Wyndham-Lewis}}

| cinematography = Cyril Bristow

| editing = John E. Morris

| music = John Reynders

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|Charles Farrell|Margaret Vyner|Fritz Kortner}}

| studio = Grosvenor Films

| distributor = Associated British Film Distributors

| released = {{Film date|1937|07|01|df=yes}}

| runtime = 79 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

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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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116092043/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42568 BFI.org] It was released in the United States as Bombs Over London.

Production

The film was made at Pinewood Studios.Wood p. 91 Its original script was written by Alexander Mackendrick.Philip Kemp, Lethal Innocence : The Cinema of Alexander Mackendrick, London, Methuen, 1991, pp. 6–7. The film's sets were designed by Wilfred Arnold.

Cast

References

Bibliography

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