Second Thoughts (1938 film)

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Second Thoughts
Directed by Albert Parker
Written by David Evans
StarringFrank Fox
Evelyn Ankers
Frank Allenby
Cinematography Ronald Neame
Production
company
20th Century Fox- British Pictures
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox Film Company (UK)
Release date
1938
Running time
61min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Second Thoughts, also released as The Crime of Peter Frame, [1] is a 1938 British drama film directed by Albert Parker and starring Frank Fox, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Allenby and Joan Hickson. [2] It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox. [3]

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Synopsis

The screenplay concerns a chemist who is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.

Cast

Critical reception

TV Guide called it an "Undistinguished second feature in spite of all the spent rage." [4]

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References

  1. "The Crime of Peter Frame (1938) - Albert Parker - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
  2. "Second Thoughts". BFI. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  3. Chibnall p.300
  4. "The Crime Of Peter Frame".

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