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Noose (1948 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Noose' (released in the United States as 'The Silk Noose') is a 1948 British crime film, directed by Edmond T. Grville and starring Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, and Derek Farr.
[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1259696/index.html 'Noose' at BFI Screenonline]
It was shot at Teddington Studios with sets designed by the art director Bernard Robinson.
Plot
Set in the then contemporary post-war London, 'Noose' is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fianc and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. The normally gentlemanly and urbane Nigel Patrick is cast as a cockney spiv.
The gangs hang around Bason's Gymnasium and Sugiani's nightclub, The Blue Moon. Sugiani has worked his way up from the gutter since arriving in Britain from Italy.
Cast
* Carole Landis as Linda Medbury
* Joseph Calleia as Sugiani
* Derek Farr as Captain Jumbo Holle
* Stanley Holloway as Inspector Rendall
* Nigel Patrick as Bar ("Gorm") Gorman
* John Slater as Pudd'n Bason
* Edward Rigby as Slush
* Leslie Bradley as Basher
* Reginald Tate as The Editor
* Hay Petrie as The Barber
* Ruth Nixon as Annie Foss
* Carol van Derman as Marcia Lane
Background
'Noose' was written by Richard Llewellyn, adapted from his own stage play of the same title. The film has been included as part of the cycle of spiv films produced between 194550 in Britain.
Reception
Trade papers called the film a "notable box office attraction" in British cinemas in 1948.[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xtGIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=hungry+hill+film+box+office&source=bl&ots=MTsQXadYDw&sig=2h-5aG3Vy4tT_h1mlC4mfRi18JQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ8b6P1YHMAhVEFqYKHcy9BF8Q6AEIMzAF#v=onepage&q=hungry%20hill%20film%20box%20office&f=false Robert Murphy, 'Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48' 2003 p211]
Footnotes
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