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Suspense (1930 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Suspense' is a 1930 British war film directed by Walter Summers and starring Mickey Brantford, Cyril McLaglen and Jack Raine.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114132646/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/363491 'Suspense'] at the British Film Institute. Published: No date given. Retrieved 29 June 2013 The battle effects were created under the supervision of Cliff Richardson at Elstree Studios which was owned by British International Pictures.Action! Fifty Years in the Life of a Union. Published: 1983 (UK). Publisher: ACTT. . Gunpowder and Smoke - Cliff Richardson p125 '"On Walter Summers' film Suspense I was put in charge of battle effects, which were on a fairly large scale."..."Even today I shudder to think of the chances that were taken in making up flash powder..."' The film's sets were designed by John Mead. It is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Patrick MacGill.
Premise
During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.
Cast
* Mickey Brantford as Private Pettigrew
* Cyril McLaglen as Cyril McClusky
* Jack Raine as Captain Wilson
* Hay Petrie as Scruffy
*Fred Groves as Private Lomax
* Percy Parsons as Private Brett
* Syd Crossley as Corporal Brown
* Hamilton Keene as Officer
References
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