Condemned to Death

Condemned to Death
French poster for the film
Directed by Walter Forde
Produced by Julius Hagen
Written by James Dawson (play)
George Goodchild (novel)
H. Fowler Mear
Bernard Merivale
Brock Williams
Starring Arthur Wontner
Gillian Lind
Gordon Harker
Cyril Raymond
Music by Baynham Honri
Cinematography Sydney Blythe
William Luff
Edited by Jack Harris
Production
company
Distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
 1932
Running time
 75 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Condemned to Death is a 1932 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Arthur Wontner, Gillian Lind and Gordon Harker.[1] It was adapted from the play Jack O'Lantern by James Dawson which was itself based on a novel by George Goodchild.

Thought to have been lost, "a cut version dubbed in French" was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to locate missing movies.[2]

Plot

A respected judge leads a double life as a murderer.

Cast

  • Arthur Wontner as Sir Charles Wallington
  • Gillian Lind as Kate Banting
  • Gordon Harker as Sam Knudge
  • Cyril Raymond as Jim Wrench
  • Jane Welsh as Sonia Wallington
  • Norah Howard as Gwen Banting
  • Edmund Gwenn as Banting
  • Griffith Humphreys as Professor Michaels
  • T. Gordon Blythe as Ali
  • James Cunningham as Inspector Sweeting
  • Gilbert Davis as Doctor Cornell
  • Bernard Brunel as Tobias Lantern
  • H. St. Barbe West as Sir Rudolph Cantler

References

  1. ↑ "Condemned to Death". British Film Institute.
  2. ↑ Jo Botting. "Lost Then Found". British Film Institute Screenonline. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
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