May 23, 2012

Films

Midnight Menace – 1937 | 76 mins | War | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Midnight Menace

Chilling film that successfully predicted the type of V bombs Hitler would later use during WWII. A newspaper cartoonist, Briant Gaunt, learns of a Balkan armament manufacturers plot to bomb London with remote control airplanes to scupper a London disarmament conference. When his reporter friend is killed, Gaunt discovers the plotters underground laboratory and sabotages their controls to end the raids.

Production Team

Sinclair Hill: Director
Cyril Bristow: Cinematography
Jill Casson: Costume Design
John E Morris: Editing
John Reynders: Original Music
Harcourt Templeman: Producer
C Wilfred Arnold: Production Design
DB Wyndham-Lewis: Script
C Gentle: Sound Department

Cast

Charles Farrell: Briant Gaunt
Margaret Vyner: Mary Stevens
Fritz Kortner: Minister Peters of Grovnia
Evan John: Dr Marsh
Arthur Finn: Mac
Reynes Barton: Conference President
Terence O’Brien: Fearns
Dennis Val: Norton Vronsky
Danny Green: Socks
Laurence Hanray: Sir George



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