Passenger to London is a 1937 British espionage thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring John Warwick, Jenny Laird and Nigel Barrie. It was shot at Wembley Studios in London as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox.[1]

Passenger to London
Directed byLawrence Huntington
Written byDavid Evans
Produced byLawrence Huntington
StarringJohn Warwick
Jenny Laird
Nigel Barrie
CinematographyStanley Grant
Edited byPeter Tanner
Music byCharles Cowlrick
Production
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Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox
Release date
  • June 1937 (1937-06)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Cast

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  • John Warwick as Frank Drayton
  • Jenny Laird as Barbara Lane
  • Paul Neville as Vautel
  • Ivan Wilmot as Veinberg
  • Aubrey Pollock as Sir James Garfield
  • Victor Hagen as Carlton
  • Nigel Barrie as Sir Donald Frame
  • Sybil Brooke as Miss Park
  • Dorothy Dewhurst as Manageress

Reception

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Picturegoer considered the storyline as "too obvious" and the film being "too slow to be fully effective".[2]

References

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  1. ^ Chibnall p.296
  2. ^ "Passenger to London". Pictuegoer. Vol. 7, no. 342. 11 December 1937. p. 31 – via British Newspaper Archive.

Bibliography

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  • Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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