77 Park Lane

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77 Park Lane
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Directed by Albert de Courville
Screenplay by Michael Powell
Reginald Berkeley
Based onplay 77 Park Lane (1928) by Walter C. Hackett [1]
Produced byWilliam Hutter
Starring Dennis Neilson-Terry
Betty Stockfeld
Malcolm Keen
Ben Welden
Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull
Mutz Greenbaum
Edited byArthur Seabourne
Production
company
Famous Players Guild
Distributed by United Artists Corporation (UK)
Release dates
  • 2 July 1931 (1931-07-02)(London, UK)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

77 Park Lane is a 1931 British thriller film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Dennis Neilson-Terry, Betty Stockfeld and Malcolm Keen. [2] It is based on a 1928 play by Walter C. Hackett, and was shot at Walton Studios. A French-language version 77 Rue Chalgrin and a Spanish-language version Between Night and Day were made at the same time.

Contents

Premise

At an upmarket gambling house in Park Lane, a woman tries to save her brother from ruin.

Cast

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References

  1. Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   9783110951943 via Google Books.
  2. "77 Park Lane (1932)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.