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Dangerous Voyage

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Dangerous Voyage
American theatrical release poster
Directed byVernon Sewell
Written byVernon Sewell
Julian Ward
Produced byNat Cohen
Stuart Levy
William H. Williams
StarringWilliam Lundigan
Naomi Chance
Vincent Ball
CinematographyJosef Ambor
Edited byGeoffrey Muller
Music byAllan Gray
Production
company
Merton Park Studios Productions
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
Release date
  • 5 April 1954 (1954-04-05)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Dangerous Voyage (U.S. title Terror Ship) is a 1954 British crime thriller B film[1] directed by Vernon Sewell and starring William Lundigan, Naomi Chance and Vincent Ball.[2] It was written by Sewell and Julian Ward and was distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated in the UK,[1] and in the United States by Lippert Pictures.

Plot

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Author Peter Duncan investigates the circumstances of a damaged yacht and its crew who are taken under tow off the English coast, and the subsequent disappearance of the crew before they reach land. The mast is somehow radioactive but after replacement a geiger counter still picks up a strong reading. When they try to find the old mast on the junk heap, it has disappeared.

Cast

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Production

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The film was shot at Merton Park Studios in London,[2] with sets designed by art director George Haslam. Location shooting took place in the English Channel, in Honfleur in France, and Shoreham in Sussex.

Vernon Sewell later said the film was originally to be about motor car racing and he refused to direct it. As they had already contracted William Lundigan they hired a blacklisted American screenwriter to change the script to be set on Sewell's yacht.[3]

Reception

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Kine Weekly wrote: "Windswept crime melodrama set mainly on the briny. ... A slap-up climax makes it watertight. Good British 'programmer'".[4]

The Monthly Film Bulletin said "Average mystery film which makes use of the latest develoments in popular science to find a new way of disposing of the villains."[5]

In British Sound Films David Quinlan says: "Same old British 'B' problem: good ideas but mediocre execution. Laughs in the wrong places."[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ^ a b "Dangerous Voyage". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  3. ^ Fowler, Roy (8 July 1994). "Vernon Sewell". British Entertainment History Project.
  4. ^ "Dangerous Voyage". Kine Weekly. 44 (238): 16–17. 18 March 1954.
  5. ^ "Dangerous Voyage". Monthly Film Bulletin. 21 (240): 73. 1954 – via ProQuest.
  6. ^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 298. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.
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