Double Exposures

Double Exposures
Directed by	John Paddy Carstairs
Produced by	George King
Written by	Gerald Elliott
Starring	Basil Langton Julien Mitchell Ruby Miller
Music by	Jack Beaver
Cinematography	Hone Glendinning
Edited by	John Seabourne Sr.
Production company	George King Productions (as Triangle Film Productions)
Distributed by	Paramount British Pictures (U.K.)
Release dates	May 1937
Running time	67 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Double Exposures (A.K.A. Alibi Breaker) is a 1937 British crime film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Basil Langton, Julien Mitchell and Ruby Miller.^[1] It was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie.^[2]

Plot

Reporter Peter Bradfield (Basil Langton) is fired from his newspaper for failing to deliver an interview with big businessman Hector Rodman (Julien Mitchell). Plucky Bradfield subsequently becomes a photographic equipment salesman, and accidentally takes photos of two men in conversation. Unbeknownst to him, these men are the businessmen's lawyer and his secretary, and are plotting to embezzle a fortune in bonds from Rodman, and planning to frame his workshy son George (George Astley) for the crime.

Cast

Basil Langton as Peter Bradfield
Julien Mitchell as Hector Rodman
Ruby Miller as Mrs. Rodman
Brian Buchel as Geoffrey Cranswick
Mavis Clair as Jill Rodman
Fred Withers as Allbutt
Ivor Barnard as Mather
George Astley as George Rodman
Frank Birch as Kempton
Denis Cowles as Police Inspector

Critical reception

TV Guide called the film a "Negligible British effort";^[3] while Nineacre called it a "Cheap but cheerful film, mainly due to Langton who plays a flippant gadabout town that populated these sorts of film." ^[4]

References

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

Double Exposures at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs

Paris Plane (1933)
Holiday's End (1937)
Double Exposures (1937)
Night Ride (1937)
Missing, Believed Married (1937)
Incident in Shanghai (1938)
Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
The Saint in London (1939)
Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Spare a Copper (1940)
He Found a Star (1941)
Dancing with Crime (1947)
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Fools Rush In (1949)
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
Talk of a Million (1951)
Treasure Hunt (1952)
Made in Heaven (1952)
Top of the Form (1953)
Trouble in Store (1953)
Up to His Neck (1954)
One Good Turn (1955)
Man of the Moment (1955)
Jumping for Joy (1956)
Up in the World (1956)
Just My Luck (1957)
The Big Money (1958)
The Square Peg (1959)
Tommy the Toreador (1959)
Sands of the Desert (1960)
A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
The Devil's Agent (1962)

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