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Noose (film)

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Plot
Main cast
Background
Reception
Footnotes
External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}{{Infobox film
| name = Noose
| image = Silk_Noose_film_poster.jpg
| caption = US theatrical release poster
| director = Edmond T. Gréville
| writer = Richard Llewellyn
| starring = Carole Landis
Derek Farr
Joseph Calleia
Stanley Holloway
Nigel Patrick
| producer = Edward Dryhurst
| music = Charles Williams
| cinematography = Hone Glendining
| editing =David Newhouse
| studio = Associated British Picture Corporation
| distributor =Pathé Pictures
| released = 28 September 1948
| runtime = 95 minutes
| language = English
| country = United Kingdom
| gross = £163,159 (UK)^[1]
}}Noose, released in the United States as The Silk Noose, is a 1948 British crime film, directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, and Derek Farr.^[2]

It was shot at Teddington Studios with sets designed by the art director Bernard Robinson.

Plot

Set in post-Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancé and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. The normally gentlemanly and urbane Nigel Patrick is cast as a cockney spiv.

Main cast

Carole Landis as Linda Medbury
Joseph Calleia as Sugiani
Derek Farr as Captain Jumbo Holle
Stanley Holloway as Inspector Rendall
Nigel Patrick as Bar Gorman
John Slater as Pudd'n Bason
Edward Rigby as Slush
Reginald Tate as the editor
Hay Petrie as the barber

Background

Noose was written by Richard Llewellyn, adapted from his own stage play of the same title. The film has been included as part of the cycle of spiv films produced between 1945–50 in Britain.^[2]

Reception

Trade papers called the film a "notable box office attraction" in British cinemas in 1948.^[3]

Footnotes

1. ^Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p487
2. ^¹Noose at BFI Screenonline
3. ^[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xtGIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=hungry+hill+film+box+office&source=bl&ots=MTsQXadYDw&sig=2h-5aG3Vy4tT_h1mlC4mfRi18JQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ8b6P1YHMAhVEFqYKHcy9BF8Q6AEIMzAF#v=onepage&q=hungry%20hill%20film%20box%20office&f=false Robert Murphy, Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 2003 p211]

External links

from the British Film Institute
BBC
[https://archive.org/stream/variety172-1948-10#page/n10/mode/1up Review of film] at Variety

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