Kuollut matkusti pohjoiseen

Original title: Mr. Denning Drives North

19511951
K-16K-16
1h 33m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

495

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Crime Drama Mystery

A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

495

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
In the crash scene of the Miles Hawk, the impact is not shown, only the aftermath of burning wreckage. The wreckage was a movie prop, the real aircraft was on the civil register for at least another four years under the ownership of FG Miles Ltd. There are unconfirmed reports that it crashed at Hurstpierpoint in 1955 with the pilot being fatally injured.

Goofs
When Denning visits Mados in his flat, after knocking him down he goes to the door with his hat in his hand, then he looks back and sees Mados lying with his head in the fireplace. Going to check on him, Denning throws his hat onto a chair. Discovering Mados is dead, he goes to a phone, picks up the receiver, sees a photograph of his daughter, and puts the phone down. As he sits on a settee his hat is in his hand.

Crazy credits
The opening credits are spoken, with no captions, giving just the film's title, the two main stars and brief supporting cast. The full credits are shown at the end.

Connections
Features Neljä sulkaa (1939)

Soundtracks
I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
(uncredited)
Written by John Glover Kind
Played on a record player by the mortuary attendant and heard as a theme over the end credits

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Featured review

6/10

An interesting and twisty thriller

An aircraft designer (John Mills) is edgy and nervous after he accidentally kills his daughter's (Eileen Moore) scheming and duplicitous older boyfriend (Herbert Lom). After he kills him he hides the body in a ditch, but a short while later the body has disappeared. He becomes obsessed in finding out what had happened threatening the relationship with his family.

A twisty and suspenseful thriller if a little heavy handed in places and has an edginess to it. Written by Alec Coppel, the film balances well the mystery itself with the strain of the incident has on his marriage and family.

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