23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 103m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
Synopsis:
A newly blind playwright breaks off his engagement and goes to attend to his latest production to London. While there he overhears a conversation that he thinks spells kidnapping and extortion. The question is, will anyone believe him?
Review:
What with the counter-intuitive trappings of Cinemascope and colour, dull leads, and a climax that contrives to be both predictable and unlikely, this mystery thriller has little going for it, including any informed knowledge of London topography, and least of all a light touch (save in one or two scenes where Cecil Parker's entertaining performance is allowed to show up everyone else's flat one.)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 103m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
Synopsis:
A newly blind playwright breaks off his engagement and goes to attend to his latest production to London. While there he overhears a conversation that he thinks spells kidnapping and extortion. The question is, will anyone believe him?
Review:
What with the counter-intuitive trappings of Cinemascope and colour, dull leads, and a climax that contrives to be both predictable and unlikely, this mystery thriller has little going for it, including any informed knowledge of London topography, and least of all a light touch (save in one or two scenes where Cecil Parker's entertaining performance is allowed to show up everyone else's flat one.)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 103m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
Synopsis:
A newly blind playwright breaks off his engagement and goes to attend to his latest production to London. While there he overhears a conversation that he thinks spells kidnapping and extortion. The question is, will anyone believe him?
Review:
What with the counter-intuitive trappings of Cinemascope and colour, dull leads, and a climax that contrives to be both predictable and unlikely, this mystery thriller has little going for it, including any informed knowledge of London topography, and least of all a light touch (save in one or two scenes where Cecil Parker's entertaining performance is allowed to show up everyone else's flat one.)