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'Midnight Menace' is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Charles Farrell, Margaret Vyner, Fritz Kortner and Danny Green. The screenplay concerns an international arms manufacturing firm's plans to start a war in Europe by bombing London.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116092043/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42568 BFI.org] It was released in the United States as 'Bombs Over London'.

Production



The film was made at Pinewood Studios.Wood p.91 Its original script was written by Alexander Mackendrick.Philip Kemp, Lethal Innocence : The Cinema of Alexander Mackendrick, London, Methuen, 1991, p. 6-7. The film's sets were designed by Wilfred Arnold.

Cast



* Charles Farrell as Brian Gaunt

* Margaret Vyner as Mary Stevens

* Fritz Kortner as Peters

* Danny Green as Socks

* Wallace Evennett as Smith

* Monti DeLyle as Pierre

* Dino Galvani as Tony

* Arthur Finn as Mac, Newspaper Editor

* Laurence Hanray as Sir George, Lead Conspirator

* Arthur Gomez as Baron von Kleisch, Delegate

* Raymond Lovell as Harris

* Evan John as Doctor Marsh

* Reynes Barton as Conference President

* Terence O'Brien as Secret Agent Fearns

* Dennis Val Norton as Vronsky, Peters' Aide

* Billy Bray as Banks

* Sydney King as Graham Stevens

* Andreas Malandrinos as Zadek

* Victor Tandy as Groves

References





Bibliography



* Low, Rachael. 'Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.

* Wood, Linda. 'British Films, 19271939'. British Film Institute, 1986.


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