They Can't Hang Me (Val Guest 1955)

[doojeen]

Interesting shots of the front wall of Pentonville Prison on Caledonian Road, north London

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr-Sv...1&feature=plcp

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211663/

[doojeen]

[doojeen]

They Can't Hang Me is a 1955 British drama film directed by Val Guest and starring Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan and Anthony Oliver. It was based on a novel by Leonard Mosley.

The plot revolves around a senior civil servant, Pitt (Morell), who has been convicted of a murder and sentenced to death. Days before his execution, Pitt reveals that he has been passing on top secret information to an agent of a foreign power and offers to reveal the identity of his handler in exchange for a reprieve. With only five days before Pitt's execution, debonair Special Branch Inspector Ralph Brown (Morgan) takes on the task of identifying the spy before he flees the country.

The starring role of Brown was an unusual part for Morgan, who was better known in British film for playing villains and criminals.

Cast

• Terence Morgan - Inspector Ralph Brown
  
• Yolande Donlan - Jill Wilson
  
• Anthony Oliver - Inspector Newcombe
  
• André Morell - Robert Isaac Pitt
  
• Reginald Beckwith - Harold
  
• Ursula Howells - Antonia Pitt
  
• Guido Lorraine - Pietr Revski
  
• Basil Dignam - Wing Commander Riddle
  
• John Horsley - Assistant Commissioner
  
• Mark Dignam - Prison Governor
  
• Raymond Rollett - Sir Robert Rosper
  
• Fred Johnson - Professor Robinson-Heston
  
• Arnold Marlé - Professor Karl Kopek
  
• Barry Lowe - Private Eric Colter
  
• Richard Cuthbert - Judge
  
• Diana Lambert - Young Woman

[doojeen]

Both sides of Caledonian Road this morning, as seen in the YouTube clip I posted above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentonville_(HM_Prison)








Prisoners under sentence of death were not housed at Pentonville Prison until the closure of Newgate in 1902, when Pentonville took over executions in north London. Condemned cells were added and an execution room built to house Newgate's gallows.

Irish revolutionary Roger Casement was hanged there on 3 August 1916 and his remains interred at the site until 1965. Udham Singh, the Indian revolutionary, who shot Sir Michael O'Dwyer (Governor of the Punjab during the Amritsar Massacre), was also detained and hanged at Pentonville (1940).

Various other people were executed at Pentonville and all were subsequently buried at the rear of the prison in unmarked graves. These include Hawley Crippen, whose family in Coldwater, Michigan has been lobbying since 2009 for his body to be repatriated and buried in the family plot. The final execution at Pentonville took place on 6 July 1961 when Edwin Bush, aged 21, was hanged. (Wikipedia)

[cassidy]

I think that was where Albert Pierrpoint did his training.

[doojeen]

Some apprenticeship that must have been!

[CliveT]

That's certainly "noose" to me!