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 |
Cinematography | Ray Densham |
Music by | Felice Montagnini |
Production company | |
Distributed by | DUK |
Release date |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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]
A young man attempts to stage a charity concert in order to raise funds to refurbish a Soho church.
The film incorporates footage from the 1948 Italian film Mad About Opera (Follie per l'opera) for the climactic concert performance. [1]
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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