Too Dangerous to Live

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Too Dangerous to Live
Directed byAnthony 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
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Brothers-First National
Release date
  • 21 August 1939 (1939-08-21)(UK)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

Contents

Premise

A private detective goes undercover by joining a gang of burglars.

Cast

Reception

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]

References

  1. "Too Dangerous to Live". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  2. BFI.org
  3. "Too Dangerous to Live" . Kine Weekly . 265 (1667): 20. 30 March 1939. ProQuest   2339725423.