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Wikipedia article




'Sensation' is a 1936 British crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring John Lodge, Diana Churchill, Francis Lister and Felix Aylmer. The screenplay concerns a crime reporter who solves a murder case using a piece of evidence he found amongst the victim's possessions.

Cast



* John Lodge - Pat Heston

* Diana Churchill - Masie Turnpit

* Francis Lister - Richard Grainger

* Joan Marion - Mrs Grainger

* Margaret Vyner - Claire Lindsay

* Jerry Verno - Spikey

* Richard Bird - Henry Belcher

* Athene Seyler - Madame Henry

* Dennis Wyndham - Spurge

* Henry Oscar - Superintendent Stainer

* Anthony Holles - Clarke

* Martin Walker - Dimmitt

* Sybil Grove - Mrs Spurge

* Leslie Perrins - Strange

* Felix Aylmer - Lord Bouverie

Reception



Writing for 'The Spectator' in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, faulting the "bad casting, bad story construction, [and] uncertain editing". While praising the acting of Holles, Seyler, and Marion, Greene found that the rest of the cast handicapped the director, and that the story lost its authenticity "in false trails, in an absurd love-story, in humour based on American film, and in the complete unreality of the 'murder gang'." (reprinted in: )

References




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