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Director:
Sinclair Hill
Writers:
G.H. Moresby-White (adaptation)
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (story)
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Release Date:
1939 (USA) more
Genre:
War
User Comments:
Right up there with the best from Monogram, PRC, Victory and Grand National. more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Charles Farrell ... Briant Gaunt
Margaret Vyner ... Mary Stevens
Fritz Kortner ... Minister Peters of Grovnia
Danny Green ... Socks, American Henchman
Wallace Evennett ... Smith, Bowler-hat Henchman
Monti DeLyle ... Pierre, Knife-throwing Henchman (as Monte De Lyle)
Dino Galvani ... Tony, Slender Henchman
Arthur Finn ... Mac, Newspaper Editor
Laurence Hanray ... Sir George, Lead Conspirator
Arthur Gomez ... Baron von Kleisch, Delegate
Raymond Lovell ... Harris
Evan John ... Dr. Marsh
Reynes Barton ... Conference President
Terence O'Brien ... Secret Agent Fearns
Dennis Val Norton ... Vronsky, Peters' Aide
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bombs Over London (USA)
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Runtime:
USA:77 min | UK:79 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved | Finland:K-16

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Right up there with the best from Monogram, PRC, Victory and Grand National., 24 December 2006

Not surprising since it used a plot all of the above used often, and just relocated it to England. And used glory-days-long-gone Charles Farrell as the star...who quickly followed it up with like fare from America's Poverty Row.

This Grosevenor Film Productions production ( proving you didn't need a Gower Gulch address to compete in this genre)was released in the U.S. as "Bombs Over London" and dealt with the machinations of a band or armament manufacturers who are trying to plunge Europe in war. (Europe was already there.)

Fritz Kortner chews the scenery as a scheming political tool of the armament ring. Charles Farrell is a newspaper cartoonist and Margaret Vyner a reporter on the same newspaper. Kortner, representing a European nation, with a "G" as the first letter (Gruevilnaz, or something), brings about a deliberate breach among various nations at a Peace Conference (held in the War Room), and, on top of that, he has employed (from the Position Wanted section of the newspaper)an inventor who has a radio-controlled system that directs bombing planes and they plan to bomb London.

Farrell gets involved after Vyner's brother, hot on the trail of the armament ring, is murdered, and uncovers the plot. But...is it too late?

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