The Frog is a 1937 British crime film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Gordon Harker, Noah Beery, Jack Hawkins and Carol Goodner.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/34036|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114012851/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/34036|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-14|title=The Frog|work=BFI}} The film is about the police chasing a criminal mastermind who goes by the name of The Frog. It was based on the 1925 novel The Fellowship of the Frog by Edgar Wallace, and the 1936 play version by Ian Hay. It was followed by a loose sequel The Return of the Frog, the following year.

Cast

Gordon Harker as Sgt. Elk
Noah Beery as Joshua Broad
Jack Hawkins as Captain Gordon
Carol Goodner as Lola Bassano
Richard Ainley as Ray Bennett
Vivian Gaye as Stella Bennett
Esme Percy as Philo Johnson
Felix Aylmer as John Bennett
Cyril Smith as PC Balder
Harold Franklyn as Hagen
Gordon McLeod as Chief Commissioner
Julien Mitchell as John Maitland

Critical reception

Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, describing it as "badly directed [and] badly acted". He admitted that "it has an old-world charm" but complained that the "well-mannered dialogue drones on".Graham Greene, 'We from Kronstadt/The Frog/Make Way for Tomorrow/Der Herrscher', Night and Day, 1 July 1937; reprinted in John Russell Taylor (ed), The Pleasure Dome, Oxford University Press 1980, p.150

Britmovie called it a "routine thriller",{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/The-Frog_1937|title=The Frog|work=britmovie.co.uk}} while British Pictures observed that the film "suffers through being an adaptation of a theatre adaptation (by Ian Hay) of the original novel. Some of the exposition is clunky and at times confusing; and the direction needed someone like Walter Forde to make the most of it. Hawkins and Harker, in the roles they played on stage, hold it together."{{cite web|url=http://www.britishpictures.com/arch_f3.html#Frog|title=ARCHIVE Fou - Fz: British Films of the 30s, 40s and 50s|author=David Absalom|work=britishpictures.com}}