Portrait of Alison
Portrait of Alison is a 1956 British atmospheric crime film directed by Guy Green. It was based on a BBC television series Portrait of Alison which aired the same year. In the United States the film was released as Postmark for Danger.[2]
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 US film poster | |
| Directed by | Guy Green |
| Produced by | Frank Godwin Tony Owen |
| Written by | Guy Green Ken Hughes Francis Durbridge (story) |
| Starring | Terry Moore Robert Beatty William Sylvester |
| Music by | John Veale |
| Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper |
| Edited by | Peter Taylor |
Production company | Insignia Films |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated RKO Pictures (US) |
Release date |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
It was also known as Alison.[3]
Plot
The film opens with a car plunging over a cliff in Italy. The killed driver is newspaperman Lewis Forrester. The woman with him is supposedly Alison Ford, an actress. But she wasn't actually in the car and turns up later in England to try and solve what was in truth a murder to shut the newspaper man up, not an accident. She solicits the help of Forrester's brother, Tim, an artist. Then, as the story unfolds, a number of mysterious, unsolved questions keep emerging, along with two more murders and a suicide. And before it's over it has been learned that an international ring of diamond thieves is at the bottom of everything, that no less than four of the major characters are part of it, and that an independent blackmailer is at work as well.
Cast
- Terry Moore as Alison Ford
- Robert Beatty as Tim Forrester
- William Sylvester as Dave Forrester
- Geoffrey Keen as Inspector Colby
- Josephine Griffin as Jill Stewart
- Allan Cuthbertson as Henry Carmichael
- Henry Oscar as John Smith
- William Lucas as Reg Dorking
- Terence Alexander as Fenby
- Sam Kydd as Bill, the telephone engineer
See also
References
- "Postmark for Danger: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- Synopsis by Hal Erickson (18 January 1956). "Postmark for Danger (1956) - Guy Green | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- 2 STUDIOS ACQUIRE STORIES FOR FILMS: Paramount Lists French and U. S. Works -- Universal to Do 'Quantez,' Western By THOMAS M. PRYORSpecial to The New York Times. New York Times28 Oct 1955: 22.
