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Wikipedia article




'The Frog' is a 1937 British crime film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Gordon Harker, Noah Beery, Jack Hawkins and Carol Goodner. The film is about the police chasing a criminal mastermind who goes by the name of The Frog, and the 1936 play version by Ian Hay. It was based on the 1925 novel 'The Fellowship of the Frog' by Edgar Wallace. 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". Greene admitted that it did have "an old-world charm", but characterized the "well-mannered dialogue [as] dron[ing] on". (reprinted in: )

'Britmovie' called it a "routine thriller"; while 'British Pictures' wrote, "(it) 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."

See also



* 'Mark of the Frog' (1928, film serial)

* 'Der Frosch mit der Maske' (1959)

References






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