Soho Conspiracy

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Soho Conspiracy
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Directed by Cecil H. Williamson
Written by Ralph Dawson
Cecil H. Williamson
Mario Monicelli
Stefano Vanzina
Produced by Edwin J. Fancey
Starring Zena Marshall
Jacques Labrecque
Peter Gawthorne
John Witty
CinematographyRay Densham
Music by Felice Montagnini
Production
company
Distributed by DUK
Release date
  • October 1950 (1950-10)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Soho Conspiracy is a 1950 British 'B' [1] musical drama film directed by Cecil H. Williamson and starring Jacques Labrecque, Zena Marshall and Peter Gawthorne. [2]

Contents

Premise

A young man attempts to stage a charity concert in order to raise funds to refurbish a Soho church.

Production

The film incorporates footage from the 1948 Italian film Mad About Opera (Follie per l'opera) for the climactic concert performance. [1]

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Gay but amateurish film, whose main virtue is the singing by the Italian stars; this, however, appears to have been contrived by the wholesale lifting of excerpts from other (unnamed) films." [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 118. ISBN   978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. "Soho Conspiracy". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  3. "Soho Conspiracy". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 17 (193): 174. 1 January 1950 via ProQuest.