Trunk Crime

Trunk Crime
Directed by Roy Boulting
Produced by John Boulting
Written by Reginald Denham (play)
Edward Percy (play)
Francis Miller
Starring Manning Whiley
Barbara Everest
Michael Drake
Music by Charles Brill
Cinematography D.P. Cooper
Edited by Clifford Boote
Roy Boulting
Production
company
Charter Film Productions
Distributed by Anglo-American Film Corporation
Release date
 25 September 1939
Running time
 60 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Trunk Crime is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest and Michael Drake. It was made at Elstree Studios as a quota quickie.[1] The film's sets were designed by Duncan Sutherland.

Cast

  • Manning Whiley as Bentley
  • Barbara Everest as Ursula
  • Michael Drake as Grierson
  • Hay Petrie as Old Dan
  • Thorley Walters as Huey Frazer
  • David Keir as Quiney
  • Howard Douglas as The landlord
  • Tom Gill as Undergraduate
  • Lewis Stringer as Hearty, Undergraduate
  • Ian Fulton as Undergraduate
  • Geoffrey Gabriel as Undergraduate
  • Eileen Bennett as Eve
  • Pamela Sharpe as Annie
  • Charles Stephenson as The porter
  • Patch as The Dog

References

  1. ↑ Wood p.101

Bibliography

  • Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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