Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Bruce Seton | ... | Jack Wraydon | |
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Henry Caine | ... | George Wraydon |
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Pearl Cameron | ... | Rose Wraydon |
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Andrew Laurence | ... | George Heeningham |
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Alan Lawrance | ... | Squire Sedgefield |
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Lorraine Clewes | ... | Helen Sedgefield (as Loraine Clewes) |
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Ben Williams | ... | John Rickers |
Gabriel Toyne | ... | Lieut. Payne | |
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John Coyle | ... | Dennis (as John E. Coyle) |
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Daphne Arthur | ... | Alice Maitland |
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Barry O'Neill | ... | George Wraydon (as Barry O'Neil) |
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Herbert Appleby | ||
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Lionel Gadsden | ||
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Joe Cunningham | ... | (as Joseph Cunningham) |
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Patricia Grant |
Based on a "famous" play , Spring-Heeled Jack or The Terror of London by Maurice Sandoz. Opening credits explain: At the opening of the last century, this island of ours stood alone facing the menace of Bonaparte's mastery of Europe. At this vital moment there were a few traitorous Englishmen willing to sell their country for their gain. Written by Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
It would appear that the reviewer from Australia was unaware of Slaughter's reputation for performing in these overheated melodramas,and that he is generally sending up the whole genre.Unfortunately he cannot disguise the sheer awfulness of the whole procedure.The films he made for George King before the war are far superior to his later efforts for Ambassador filmed at the very small studios in Bushey.The main problem is that the film is just so boring it is impossible to hold the attention.Also it has to be said that Slaughter is well past his prime here.It was without the worst of his films and watchable only by those who are devotees of either the genre or of Slaughter himself.