Troubled Waters | |
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Directed by | Stanley Goulder |
Written by | Al Rosen Tudor Gates |
Based on | story by Al Rosen |
Produced by | Jack Parsons Robert L. Lippert |
Starring | Tab Hunter |
Production company | Parroch-McCallum |
Distributed by | British Lion Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Troubled Waters (U.S. title: Man with Two Faces [1] ) is a 1964 British crime film directed by Stanley Goulder and starring Tab Hunter, Zena Walker and Andy Myers. [2] [3]
A violent criminal is released from prison and returns home to his wife and the young son he barely knows.
It was the first film written by Tudor Gates, for a company called Sagittarius. [4] According to Gates, he was offered the job by Al Rosen, an American agent who he met in a studio carpark. Rosen talked him into writing a film and Rosen sold it. Gates says his fee was around a thousand pounds. [5]
Filming took place at Shepperton Studios. Tab Hunter made the movie immediately after starring in War Gods of the Deep (1965) also shot in England. He later called the film "a low budget potboiler with a fine actress called Zena Walker", adding "I didn't do it for the art, let's face it. I did it to stay in England and enjoy a life I'd never have otherwise experienced." He said the film "has fallen through the cracks, both in public consciousness and my own memory." [6]
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