Condemned to Death

Condemned to Death
French poster for the film
Directed by	Walter Forde
Written by	H. Fowler Mear Bernard Merivale Brock Williams
Based on	Jack O'Lantern by James Dawson and George Goodchild
Produced by	Julius Hagen
Starring	Arthur Wontner Gillian Lind Gordon Harker Cyril Raymond
Cinematography	Sydney Blythe William Luff
Edited by	Jack Harris
Music by	Baynham Honri
Production company	Twickenham Film Studios
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date	30 May 1932 (1932-05-30)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Condemned to Death is a 1932 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Arthur Wontner, Gillian Lind and Gordon Harker. ^[1] It was adapted from the play Jack O'Lantern by James Dawson which was itself based on a 1929 novel by George Goodchild.

Thought to have been lost, "a cut version dubbed in French" was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to locate missing movies. ^[2]

Plot

A respected judge leads a double life as a murderer.

Cast

• Arthur Wontner as Sir Charles Wallington
• Gillian Lind as Kate Banting
• Gordon Harker as Sam Knudge
• Cyril Raymond as Jim Wrench
• Jane Welsh as Sonia Wallington
• Norah Howard as Gwen Banting
• Edmund Gwenn as Banting
• Griffith Humphreys as Professor Michaels
• T. Gordon Blythe as Ali
• James Cunningham as Inspector Sweeting
• Gilbert Davis as Doctor Cornell
• Bernard Brunel as Tobias Lantern
• H. St. Barbe West as Sir Rudolph Cantler

References

1. "Condemned to Death". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009.
2. Jo Botting. "Lost Then Found". British Film Institute Screenonline. Retrieved 22 February 2013.

External links

• Condemned to Death at IMDb