British noir II : 5 film set

Resource Information

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Label

British noir II : 5 film set

Title remainder

5 film set

Title variation

• British noir 2
• Interrupted journey
• Cosh boy
• Time is my enemy
• Time lock
• Vicious circle

Contributor

• Farr, Derek, 1912-1986
• Gilbert, Lewis, 1920-
• Hobson, Valerie, 1917-1998
• Hyde-White, Wilfrid
• Jeffries, Lionel
• Johns, Mervyn
• Kenney, James, 1930-
• Mills, John, 1908-2005
• Price, Dennis, 1915-1973
• Thomas, Gerald, 1920-1993
• Todd, Richard, 1919-2009
• Asherson, Renee, 1915-2014
• Chaffey, Don, 1917-1990
• Collins, Joan, 1933-
• Connery, Sean
• Culver, Roland, 1900-1984

Subject

• Detective and mystery films
• Drama
• Fiction films
• Film noir

Language

eng

Summary

• The interrupted journey : After reconsidering eloping with another womanat the last minute, John North pulls the emergency break on the train he is traveling on and returns home to his wife. Later on, after the train crashes and many of the passengers end up dying including his mistress, John becomes a suspect when the police discover that she had been murdered prior to the crash
• Cosh boy : a gang of teenage delinguents, led by Roy, is earning money by mugging women on the streets of London. The police catch up with them and of their hearing, the judge sentences them to a youth club to reform their ways. The boys use the club as the base for their growing operation
• Time is my enemy : Radley is a small-time crook, believed to be dead, who returns to his wife after a long absence to find her remarried to a wealthy publisher. When Radley kills a jeweler in a robbery, so in turn Radley blackmails his wife
• Time lock : a south Yorkshire bank employee's young son is accidentally sealed in a bank vault with a 63-hour time lock. The vault cannot be opened manually and with less than ten hours of oxygen left inside the safe, it becomes a race to save the boy
• The vicious circle : The great John Mills stars as Dr. Howard Latimer, who one day received a telephone call apparently from his movie mogul friend, asking him to pick up film star Frieda Veldon at the airport and drive her to her hotel. A few days later, he arrives at his flat only to find Frieda's dead body. The police are called in and now he must solve the mystery himself in order to prove his innocence

Related

• Time lock
• Cosh boy
• The interrupted journey
• The vicious circle
• Time is my enemy

Cataloging source

SPP

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• Directed by Lewis Gilbert
• Time is my enemy : directed by Don Chaffey
• Time lock : directed by Gerald Thomas
• The vicious circle : Directed by Gerald Thomas

Intended audience

Not rated

PerformerNote

• The interrupted journey : Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson
• Cosh boy : James Kenney, Joan Collins
• Time is my enemy : Dennis Price, Renée Asherson
• TIme lock : Sean Connery
• The vicious circle : John Mills, Wilfred Hyde-White, Derek Farr, Roland Culver, Mervyn Johns, Lionel Jeffries.

Runtime

363

Series statement

Kino classics

Technique

live action