| 词条 | Tread Softly Stranger |
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| name = Tread Softly Stranger | image = Treadsoftlystranger.jpg | caption = UK release poster | director = Gordon Parry | producer = George Minter | writer = George Minter |based on = play Blind Alley by Jack Popplewell | starring = Diana Dors George Baker Terence Morgan | music = Tristram Cary | cinematography = Douglas Slocombe | editing = Anthony Harvey |studio=Alderdale George Minter Productions | distributor = Renown Pictures | released = August 1958 | runtime = 90 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = }}Tread Softly Stranger is a 1958 British crime drama directed by Gordon Parry and starring Diana Dors, George Baker and Terence Morgan. The film was shot in black-and-white in film noir style, and its setting in an industrial town in northern England mirrors the kitchen sink realism movement coming into vogue in English drama and film at the time. The screenplay was adapted from the stage play Blind Alley (1953) by Jack Popplewell.[1][2] PlotThe action takes place in the Yorkshire steel town of Rawborough – Rotherham was used for the extensive location filming – to which native son Johnny Mansell (George Baker) has fled after racking up large gambling debts in London. Johnny moves into a cramped flat with his brother Dave (Terence Morgan), a clerk in a local steel mill, and Dave's girlfriend Calico (Diana Dors), a hostess in a local nightclub. Calico comes up with a plan for the brothers to rob the payroll at Dave's workplace to steal enough money to cover Dave's fraud and Johnny's debts.[3] Cast
ProductionDors made the film after starring in a number of movies in the US.[4] It was shot at Nettlefold Studios.[5] ReceptionTread Softly Stranger did reasonable business at the box-office on its original release but received little critical attention, being seen as a typical crime potboiler which would be watched once and then forgotten. Its reputation was upgraded in later decades, with critics finding much to admire, particularly the cinematography by Douglas Slocombe with its authentic feel of everyday life in a steel town of the era. The main incongruity in the film is cited as the noticeable lack of Yorkshire accents in characters who were supposedly born and brought up in the county. It is also questionable whether a town such as Rawborough in the 1950s would have been the venue for a nightclub of the type in which Calico is employed, a far cry from the working men's club it purports to be.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} The eponymous theme tune was sung by Jim Dale. Tread Softly Stranger received its first DVD release in the UK in 2008. References1. ^PICTURE SHOW gossipFilmer, Fay. Picture Show; London Vol. 66, Iss. 1716, (Feb 11, 1956): 3-4. 2. ^TREAD SOFTLY, STRANGERMonthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 25, Iss. 288, (Jan 1, 1958): 92. 3. ^Tread Softly, STRANGERPicture Show; London Vol. 71, Iss. 1849, (Sep 6, 1958): 9. 4. ^Andy Hardy's Return Forecast; Diana Dors Will Rejoin GassmanSchallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times (1923-1995); Los Angeles, Calif. [Los Angeles, Calif]15 Oct 1957: A9. 5. ^Round the British StudiosNepean, Edith. Picture Show; London Vol. 70, Iss. 1828, (Apr 12, 1958): 11. External links
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