Seven Sinners

19361936
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1h 7m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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Crime Thriller

A wise cracking American P.I. traveling abroad with his love interest and sidekick, stumbles on to a dead body. After it disappears again, he starts to unravel a devious crime ring.A wise cracking American P.I. traveling abroad with his love interest and sidekick, stumbles on to a dead body. After it disappears again, he starts to unravel a devious crime ring.A wise cracking American P.I. traveling abroad with his love interest and sidekick, stumbles on to a dead body. After it disappears again, he starts to unravel a devious crime ring.

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

372

YOUR RATING

Director
- Albert de Courville
Writers
- Sidney Gilliat
- Frank Launder
- Austin Melford(additional dialogue)
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Constance Cummings in Seven Sinners (1936)

Constance Cummings and Edmund Lowe in Seven Sinners (1936)

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Trivia
This film received its initial television broadcast in the USA Friday 9 January 1942 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1).

Goofs
Just before the engine hits the lorry on the occupation crossing, there is a shot of its buffer beam. The engine number, 1060, is reversed indicating the film was back to front.

Quotes
John Harwood: Hence, I'll have to bust into that gent's flat.
Caryl Fenton: Hence, you'll bust into it alone.
John Harwood: Of course, it's a man's job.
Caryl Fenton: Oh, is it? I'll go find one.
John Harwood: I knew I could count on you.

Soundtracks
Jazzing
(uncredited)
Music by Francesco Ansaldo

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It's real alright!

Neil-117 is quite correct, the film makers were given permission by the Southern Railway to smash an old locomotive and carriages into a lorry on a disused branch line, hence the spectacular train crash.

I think his other comments are a little unfair. The film is taken from a play called 'The Wrecker' by Arnold Ridley (who also wrote 'The Ghost Train' and later became Private Godfrey in 'Dad's Army'). The whole point of the plot is that a serial murderer is staging train crashes to disguise his crimes.

Of course the film is dated but it's good, well-paced entertainment. If you enjoy Hitchcock's British thrillers (especially 'The Lady Vanishes', also a Launder and Gilliatt screenplay) you'll like this one.

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