Taking a look at Talking Pictures free online catch-up service,I was happy to find a selection of rather obscure titles by film maker Terence Fisher, which led to me helping a man get out of a trap.
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Revealed in Tony Dalton's delightful book Terence Fisher: Master of Gothic Cinema that this title marked the film maker returning to Hammer studios, co-writer (with Paul Tabori) / director Terence Fisher stylishly points towards his upcoming Gothic Horror in the final, where Fisher & cinematographer Reginald H. Wyer free the man from the murder mystery, with an extended first-person sequence, (a recurring motif in the Film Noir works by Fisher) being broken by a Scream Queen shriek.
Filmed round the streets St. Paul's Cathedral, Fisher follows Speight on the run in the bombed-out location, with jagged panning shots dipped in hanging low-lighting which reflects Speight having to go deeper underground to avoid the police.
Joined by a wonderful Lois Maxwell as Thelma and Barbara Shelley making her screen debut, Kieron Moore gives a fittingly gruff performance as Speight, with Moore having Speight scratching his nails against the bombed-out walls, trying to find a brick to loosen in order to prove his innocence,and get out of the man-made trap.
View on the film:
Revealed in Tony Dalton's delightful book Terence Fisher: Master of Gothic Cinema that this title marked the film maker returning to Hammer studios, co-writer (with Paul Tabori) / director Terence Fisher stylishly points towards his upcoming Gothic Horror in the final, where Fisher & cinematographer Reginald H. Wyer free the man from the murder mystery, with an extended first-person sequence, (a recurring motif in the Film Noir works by Fisher) being broken by a Scream Queen shriek.
Filmed round the streets St. Paul's Cathedral, Fisher follows Speight on the run in the bombed-out location, with jagged panning shots dipped in hanging low-lighting which reflects Speight having to go deeper underground to avoid the police.
Joined by a wonderful Lois Maxwell as Thelma and Barbara Shelley making her screen debut, Kieron Moore gives a fittingly gruff performance as Speight, with Moore having Speight scratching his nails against the bombed-out walls, trying to find a brick to loosen in order to prove his innocence,and get out of the man-made trap.