Escort for Hire

Escort for Hire

Directed by	Godfrey Grayson
Produced by	Edward J. Danziger Harry Lee Danziger
Written by	Mark Grantham
Starring	June Thorburn Pete Murray
Music by	Tony Crombie (uncredited)
Cinematography	James Wilson (as Jimmy Wilson)
Edited by	Desmond Saunders
Production company	Danziger Productions
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (UK)
Release dates	December 1960
Running time	66 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Escort for Hire is a low budget 1960 British thriller film.^[1] It starred June Thorburn, Pete Murray, Noel Trevarthen, Jan Holden and Peter Butterworth.^[2]

Plot

Unemployed actor Steve gets a job with Miss Kennedy's agency as an escort-bodyguard, but ends up being framed for murder after a wealthy client, Miss Elizabeth Quinn, is killed. ^[3]

Cast

Terry - June Thorburn
Buzz - Pete Murray
Steve - Noel Trevarthen
Elizabeth - Jan Holden
Inspector Bruce - Peter Butterworth
Arthur Vickers - Guy Middleton
Barbara - Mary Laura Wood
Jack - Derek Blomfield
Nadia - Jill Melford
Eldon Baker - Patricia Plunkett
Receptionist - Catherine Ellison
Detective Sergeant Moore - Bruce Beeby
Porter - C. Denier Warren
Marion - Viola Keats
Temperance Lady - Totti Truman Taylor

Critical reception

TV Guide wrote, "this routine British crime melodrama is slightly enhanced by Technicolor." ^[4]

References

↑ "Escort for Hire (1960)". BFI.
↑ "Escort for Hire (1960) - Godfrey Grayson - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
↑ "DANZIGER FILMS". 78rpm.co.uk.
↑ "Escort For Hire". TVGuide.com.

External links

Escort for Hire at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Godfrey Grayson

Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)
Doctor Morelle (1949)
The Adventures of P.C. 49 (1949)
Meet Simon Cherry (1949)
What the Butler Saw (1950)
The Lady Craved Excitement (1950)
Room to Let (1950)
Dick Barton at Bay (1950)
To Have and to Hold (1951)
The Fake (1953)
Black Ice (1957)
Innocent Meeting (1958)
Date at Midnight (1959)
Woman's Temptation (1959)
High Jump (1959)
An Honourable Murder (1960)
The Spider's Web (1960)
Escort for Hire (1960)
So Evil, So Young (1961)
The Pursuers (1961)
The Lamp in Assassin Mews (1962)
The Battleaxe (1962)
She Always Gets Their Man (1962)
Design for Loving (1962)
The Durant Affair (1962)

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