Cloudburst (1951 film)
| Cloudburst | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Francis Searle |
| Written by | Leo Marks (play) Francis Searle |
| Produced by | Anthony Hinds Alexander Paal |
| Starring | Robert Preston |
| Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
| Edited by | John Ferris |
| Music by | Frank Spencer |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Exclusive Films (UK) United Artists (USA) |
Release date |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Cloudburst is a 1951 British crime drama film produced by Hammer Films, directed by Francis Searle, starring Robert Preston and featuring Elizabeth Sellars, Harold Lang, Colin Tapley and Sheila Burrell. The script, by Searle and Leo Marks, is based on the play of the same name by Marks,[1] a wartime cryptographer for the Special Operations Executive, and later the author of a memoir about his wartime work, Between Silk and Cyanide (1998).
Plot
[edit]A World War II veteran, a former operative for the SOE, seeks revenge on the driver and passenger of a hit-and-run automobile that struck and killed his wife.[2]
Cast
[edit]- Robert Preston as John Graham
- Elizabeth Sellars as Carol Graham
- Colin Tapley as Inspector Davis
- Sheila Burrell as Lorna Dawson
- Harold Lang as Mickie Fraser / Kid Python
- Mary Germaine as Peggy Reece
- George Woodbridge as Sergeant Ritchie
- Lyn Evans as Chuck Peters
- Thomas Heathcote as Jackie
- Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Reece
- Daphne Anderson as Kate
- Edward Lexy as Cardew
- James Mills as Thompson
- Noel Howlett as Johnson
- Martin Boddey as Desk Sergeant
Reception
[edit]The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Violent and implausible thriller."[3]
Kine Weekly wrote: "Bizarre, yet holding 'death on the road' romantic melodrama. ... First-rate British attraction."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (7 October 2017). The British 'B' Film. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 78. ISBN 978-1844575749.
- ^ Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press. p. 141. ISBN 019815934X.
- ^ "Cloudburst". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 18 (204): 296. 1 January 1951 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Cloudburst". Kine Weekly. 431 (2382): 26. 19 February 1953 – via ProQuest.
External links
[edit]- Cloudburst at IMDb
- Cloudburst at the TCM Movie Database
- 1951 films
- 1951 crime drama films
- British black-and-white films
- British crime drama films
- British films about revenge
- Film noir
- Films directed by Francis Searle
- Films set in England
- Films set in London
- Films set in the 1940s
- Hammer Film Productions films
- 1950s English-language films
- 1950s British films
- Films scored by Frank Spencer
- English-language crime drama films