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Old 17-10-2007, 06:57 PM
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Yesterday afternoon,I was watching an antiquated film starring Dan Duryea called World For Ransome. After a while,I got the impression it was a British film (it was supposedly set in Singapore) and then on seeing Patrick Allen in it,it more or less confirmed it was British. However,after checking the IMDB,it was filmed in the USA. Did Patrick Allen set out for the USA in the fifties to start a career in Hollywood,but somehow never made it?
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Yesterday afternoon,I was watching an antiquated film starring Dan Duryea called World For Ransome. After a while,I got the impression it was a British film (it was supposedly set in Singapore) and then on seeing Patrick Allen in it,it more or less confirmed it was British. However,after checking the IMDB,it was filmed in the USA. Did Patrick Allen set out for the USA in the fifties to start a career in Hollywood,but somehow never made it?
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Yup, think his obits are still available - they tell the full rather colourful story. He turns up in Hitch's Dial M which was filmed over there
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One of my family's favourite actors, as a kid. He was in 'High Tide at Noon' with Patrick McGoohan in 1957............ so he couldn't have been trying very hard to get to Hollywood.....

He pops up in British TV mags in the Fifties I think, so I suspect he wasn't trying to break America particularly. I'm sure someone here will know heaps but I'll check him out a bit more and if I spot anything in my stuff that doesn't get covered I'll let you know.

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Old 17-10-2007, 07:24 PM
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One of my family's favourite actors, as a kid. He was in 'High Tide at Noon' with Patrick McGoohan in 1957............ so he couldn't have been trying very hard to get to Hollywood.....

He pops up in British TV mags in the Fifties I think, so I suspect he wasn't trying to break America particularly. I'm sure someone here will know heaps but I'll check him out a bit more and if I spot anything in my stuff that doesn't get covered I'll let you know.
Like most actors he went where the work was
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It's interesting that he also, I think, dubbed an american actor in The Devil Rides Out which also starred his wife, Sarah Lawson. I'm also almost sure he played an American Sergeant in another war film but I can't place which film it was.
Anyway, an excellent actor wherever he turned up.
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World for Ransom was a spin-off from Duryea's tv series 'China Smith'. They strangely changed the name of Duryea's character but used the same sets and some of the regular supporting cast. It plays exactly like a slightly bigger budget version of one of the tv episodes. I think it's a good little thriller and foreshadows nicely Robert Aldrich's later 'nuclear' thriller Kiss Me Deadly.

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I always thought Patrick Allen was Mr Voiceover, and the poor man's Stanley Baker. Whenever I see him in a film I half expect him to look at the camera and start selling you something! A good actor no doubt but that voice of his was just too perfect to be true!
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I always thought Patrick Allen was Mr Voiceover, and the poor man's Stanley Baker. Whenever I see him in a film I half expect him to look at the camera and start selling you something! A good actor no doubt but that voice of his was just too perfect to be true!
I remember him whizzing about in that helicopter advertising Barratt Holmes!

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........and doing the voiceover for a 'Nuclear attack' alert Film!
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The actor dubbed in THE DEVIL RIDES OUT was Leon Greene. He's not American. You can hear his real voice in A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM where he plays the Roman Captain Miles Gloriosus. And a very fine voice it is too -- Greene is an opera singer. Don't know why he was dubbed, maybe he was too operatic?
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I worked with Patrick for many years in the '50's at Radio Luxembourg where he was Hughie Greens voice links on 'Opportunity Knocks .
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He was so good Channel 4 now have somebody impersonating him on voiceovers.

My favourite performance of his was his appearance in an episode of UFO.
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