Noose (1948)
(The Silk Noose)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 76m
Director: Edmond T. Gréville
Cast: Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia (as Knucksy), Derek Farr, Stanley Holloway, Nigel Patrick, Hay Petrie
Synopsis:
On coming across one of his victim's friends, an American fashion writer on a London newspaper sets her sights on an Italian black marketeer, and before long she and her fiancé are one step ahead of the law as they mobilise the city's barrow boys against 'Knucksy's heavies.
Review:
Part of the 'spiv cycle' of British crime movies after the war, this is an extraordinary piece, based on a Richard Llewellyn play, which has its fair share of young female corpses but nevertheless maintains a mood of light banter throughout, with some of that rapid fire dialogue in which 'bent' characters seemed to specialise back then. ('Why d'you ask me?' - 'Well, you're 'ere ain't yer?'). Some of it quite fun, then, and full of quirky touches: Dutch angles galore, the floozy watching the dancers through a crystal globe, the heroine leaving her shoes everywhere, and in-depth compositions for sardonic effect.
(The Silk Noose)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 76m
Director: Edmond T. Gréville
Cast: Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia (as Knucksy), Derek Farr, Stanley Holloway, Nigel Patrick, Hay Petrie
Synopsis:
On coming across one of his victim's friends, an American fashion writer on a London newspaper sets her sights on an Italian black marketeer, and before long she and her fiancé are one step ahead of the law as they mobilise the city's barrow boys against 'Knucksy's heavies.
Review:
Part of the 'spiv cycle' of British crime movies after the war, this is an extraordinary piece, based on a Richard Llewellyn play, which has its fair share of young female corpses but nevertheless maintains a mood of light banter throughout, with some of that rapid fire dialogue in which 'bent' characters seemed to specialise back then. ('Why d'you ask me?' - 'Well, you're 'ere ain't yer?'). Some of it quite fun, then, and full of quirky touches: Dutch angles galore, the floozy watching the dancers through a crystal globe, the heroine leaving her shoes everywhere, and in-depth compositions for sardonic effect.
(The Silk Noose)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 76m
Director: Edmond T. Gréville
Cast: Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia (as Knucksy), Derek Farr, Stanley Holloway, Nigel Patrick, Hay Petrie
Synopsis:
On coming across one of his victim's friends, an American fashion writer on a London newspaper sets her sights on an Italian black marketeer, and before long she and her fiancé are one step ahead of the law as they mobilise the city's barrow boys against 'Knucksy's heavies.
Review:
Part of the 'spiv cycle' of British crime movies after the war, this is an extraordinary piece, based on a Richard Llewellyn play, which has its fair share of young female corpses but nevertheless maintains a mood of light banter throughout, with some of that rapid fire dialogue in which 'bent' characters seemed to specialise back then. ('Why d'you ask me?' - 'Well, you're 'ere ain't yer?'). Some of it quite fun, then, and full of quirky touches: Dutch angles galore, the floozy watching the dancers through a crystal globe, the heroine leaving her shoes everywhere, and in-depth compositions for sardonic effect.