Someone at the Door (1950 film)

Someone at the Door
Directed by Francis Searle
Produced by Anthony Hinds
Screenplay by A.R. Rawlinson
Based on the play Someone at the Door by Major Campbell Christie & Dorothy Campbell Christie[1]
Starring Michael Medwin
Garry Marsh
Yvonne Owen
Music by Frank Spencer
Cinematography Walter J. Harvey
Edited by John Ferris
Production
company
Distributed by Exclusive Films (UK)
Release date
  • April 1950 (1950-04) (UK)
Running time
 65 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Someone at the Door is a 1950 British crime comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh and Yvonne Owen.[2]

Basis

The film was based on a hit West End play by Campbell Christie and his wife Dorothy, which had previously been turned into a film in 1936.[3][4][5]

Premise

A journalist comes up with a scheme to boost his career by inventing a fake murder but soon becomes embroiled in trouble when a real killing takes place.

Cast

Critical reception

The Radio Times wrote, "this is Hammer hokum of the hoariest kind. There isn't a semblance of suspense...Not even the arrival of jewel thieves at the haunted house...can revive one's fast-fading interest. However, there is one good wheeze, during the credit sequence, when director Francis Searle reveals that the front of the old house is merely a flat piece of scenery erected in a field";[5] and Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings concluded, "it isn't much of a movie, but if you take it for what it is (a late-period old dark house variant based on a stage play), it has its uses. There are a few mildly amusing jokes and a couple of decent plot twists, which is more than some examples of this genre have."[6]

References

  1. ↑ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). "The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film". Walter de Gruyter – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ "Someone at the Door (1950)".
  3. ↑ "Someone at the Door (1936)".
  4. ↑ .http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jzx58/someone-at-the-door
  5. 1 2 "Someone at the Door - Film from RadioTimes".
  6. ↑ Ramblings, Fantastic Movie Musings &. "Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings - SOMEONE AT THE DOOR(1950)".


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