Too Dangerous to Live | |
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Directed by | Anthony Hankey Leslie Norman |
Screenplay by | Leslie Arliss Connery Chappell Paul Gangelin David Hume (novel) |
Produced by | Jerome Jackson |
Starring | Sebastian Shaw Anna Konstam Reginald Tate |
Cinematography | Basil Emmott |
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Distributed by | Warner Brothers-First National |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Too Dangerous to Live is a 1939 British crime film directed by Anthony Hankey and Leslie Norman and starring Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam and Reginald Tate. [1] [2] The screenplay was by Leslie Arliss, Connery Chappell and Paul Gangelin based on the novel Crime Unlimited by David Hume.
A private detective goes undercover by joining a gang of burglars.
Kine Weekly wrote: "The direction is as competent as the acting, no grass is allowed to grow under the story; it works smoothly and excitingly to its spectacular climax. Secret passages mysterious radio stations, aeroplanes, sinister hideouts, death by electrocution, and attempt at a death by arson are but the most easily remembered paraphernalia and phases of the eventful and hair-raising entertainment." [3]