British director George King was in films from the 1920s as agent,
title-card writer, writer, producer and director, working almost exclusively
on low-budget “Quota Quickie” productions. He helmed several
of Tod Slaughter's inexpensive but popular melodramas, including Sweeney
Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936), The Crimes of Stephen
Hawke (1936), Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938), The
Face at the Window (1939) and Crimes at the Dark House (1940). He
successfully embarked on more upmarket films with his wartime dramas
Tomorrow We Live (1942) and Candlelight
in Algeria (1943). After the war, King directed only three more
films but was provided with a higher budget than usual for the lively
musical biopic Gaiety George (1946), and subsequently the moody Shop
at Sly Corner (1946) and the darkly winding drama Forbidden
(1948) for Pennant Pictures. King subsequently produced just one film,
Lance Comfort’s legal drama Eight O’clock Walk (1954).
