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Troubled Waters (1936 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Troubled Waters' is a 1936 British mystery film directed by Albert Parker and starring James Mason, Virginia Cherrill, Alastair Sim, Raymond Lovell and Sam Wilkinson.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114021056/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/55384 BFI.org] It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Fox Film.Chibnall p.292
Premise
A government agent (James Mason) exposes smugglers in a British town with a dwindling spring mineral water business.
Cast
*Alastair Sim as Mac MacTavish
*Virginia Cherrill as June Elkhardt
*James Mason as John Merriman
*Raymond Lovell as Carter
*Bellenden Powell as Dr Garthwaite -
* Sam Wilkinson as Lightning
* Peter Popp as Timothy Golightly
*W.T. Ellwanger as Ezra Elkhardt
Critical reception
'TV Guide' gave the film two out of four stars, and wrote, "The action is sustained throughout and Mason, as usual, is very good." This was not in response to the film's actual premiere but at least twenty years later, as the first 'TV Guide' was not published until 1953.
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