Wrong Number | |
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Directed by | Vernon Sewell |
Written by | James Eastwood Norman Edwards |
Produced by | Nat Cohen Stuart Levy Jack Greenwood |
Starring | Peter Reynolds Lisa Gastoni Olive Sloane |
Cinematography | Josef Ambor |
Edited by | Derek Holding |
Production company | Merton Park Studios Productions |
Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors |
Release date | 28 June 1959 |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Wrong Number is a 1959 British second feature [1] crime film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Peter Reynolds, Lisa Gastoni and Olive Sloane. [2] It was written by James Eastwood and Norman Edwards.
It was produced at Merton Park Studios in London. [1] : 147 The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A routine crime thriller, not always persuasive (the robbery scenes are quite unconvincing) and – apart from Olive Sloane's amusingly larger-than-life character study – uninteresting in performance." [3]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Most unconvincing monor thriller; Olive Sloane's ripe performance at least punctuates the groans." [4]
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