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They Can't Hang Me

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They Can't Hang Me
Original British quad poster
Directed byVal Guest
Written byVal Guest
Val Valentine
Based onnovel by Leonard Mosley
Produced byRoger Proudlock
StarringTerence Morgan
Yolande Donlan
André Morell
Ursula Howells
CinematographyStanley Pavey
Edited byDouglas Myers
Music byStanley Black
Production
company
Distributed byIndependent Film Distributors
Release date
  • October 1955 (1955-10)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

They Can't Hang Me is a 1955 British drama film directed by Val Guest and starring Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan and Anthony Oliver.[1] It was based on a novel by Leonard Mosley.[2] It was shot at Shepperton Studios near London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Joseph Bato.

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Plot

A senior civil servant, Pitt (Morell) has been convicted of a murder and sentenced to death. Days before his execution, Pitt reveals that he has been passing on top secret information to an agent of a foreign power and offers to reveal the identity of his handler in exchange for a reprieve. With only five days before Pitt's execution, debonair Special Branch Inspector Ralph Brown (Morgan) takes on the task of identifying the spy before he flees the country.

The film uses Sidney Torch's music for The Black Museum for its title and some of its incidental music.

The starring role of Brown was an unusual part for Morgan, who was better known for playing villains.

Cast

Production

Guest said "the Proudlock Brothers had bought the book, Roger Proudlock and his brother, and had got themselves into terrible trouble one way or another, financially or the director they had had pulled out of they’d fired [them], something had gone wrong, and I know they called me in a panic and said “Will you take this over?” So I looked at it and I didn’t like the script so they let me redo the script, and we took over at very short notice. It was not one of those that I had sat down and said I must make."[3]

Critical reception

Radio Times calls the film "a minor Cold War thriller", adding, "(Val) Guest puts a neat (if downbeat) spin on events," and concluding, "the back-up cast is as solid as a rock, with Guest's wife Yolande Donlan putting in an effective appearance".[4] TV Guide describes it as "slightly more interesting than the normal run of British spy films, thanks to an unusually intelligent script."[5]

References

  1. ^ "They Can't Hang Me (1955) - BFI". BFI. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
  2. ^ Mavis, Paul (8 June 2015). The Espionage Filmography. ISBN 9781476604275.
  3. ^ Fowler, Roy (1988). "Interview with Val Guest". British Entertainment History Project.
  4. ^ David Parkinson. "They Can't Hang Me". RadioTimes.
  5. ^ "They Can't Hang Me". TV Guide.

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