Noose (1948 film)

Noose
Noose
	US theatrical release poster
Directed by	Edmond T. Gréville
Written by	Richard Llewellyn (play and screenplay)
Produced by	Edward Dryhurst
Starring	Carole Landis; Derek Farr; Joseph Calleia; Stanley Holloway; Nigel Patrick
Cinematography	Hone Glendining
Edited by	David Newhouse
Music by	Charles Williams
Production; company	Associated British Picture Corporation
Distributed by	Pathé Pictures
Release date	28 September 1948;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£136,500
Box office	£163,159 (UK)

Noose (released in the United States as The Silk Noose) is a 1948 British crime film, directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, and Derek Farr.^[3]

It was shot at Teddington Studios with sets designed by the art director Bernard Robinson.

Plot

Set in the then contemporary post-war London, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancé and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. The normally gentlemanly and urbane Nigel Patrick is cast as a cockney spiv.

The gangs hang around Bason's Gymnasium and Sugiani's nightclub, The Blue Moon. Sugiani has worked his way up from the gutter since arriving in Britain from Italy.

Cast

Carole Landis as Linda Medbury
Joseph Calleia as Sugiani
Derek Farr as Captain Jumbo Holle
Stanley Holloway as Inspector Rendall
Nigel Patrick as Bar ("Gorm") Gorman
John Slater as Pudd'n Bason
Edward Rigby as Slush
Leslie Bradley as Basher
Reginald Tate as The Editor
Hay Petrie as The Barber
John Salew as Greasey Anderson
Ruth Nixon as Annie Foss
Carol van Derman as Marcia Lane

Background

Noose was written by Richard Llewellyn, adapted from his own stage play of the same title. The film has been included as part of the cycle of spiv films produced between 1945 and 1950 in Britain.^[3]

Reception

Trade papers called the film a "notable box office attraction" in British cinemas in 1948.^[4] As of 1 April 1950 the film earned distributor's gross receipts of £119,229 in the UK of which £74,918 went to the producer.^[1]

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 355.
^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p487
^ ^a ^b Noose at BFI Screenonline
^ Robert Murphy, Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 2003 p211

External links

[1] from the British Film Institute
[2] BBC
Review of film at Variety

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[money-1] Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 355.

[2] Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p487

[screenonline.org.uk-3] Noose at BFI Screenonline

[4] Robert Murphy, Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 2003 p211

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