Channel Crossing

Channel Crossing - 1933 | 67mins | Thriller | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Milton Rosmer.
Producer: Ian Dalrymple and Angus MacPhail.
Script: Angus MacPhail and Cyril Campion. (from a story by W.P. Lipscomb)
Cinematography: Philip Tannura.
Editing: Daniel Birt.
Art Direction: Alfred Junge.
Costume Design: Gordon Conway.
Sound Department: A. Birch.

The Cast

Matheson Lang - Jacob Van Eeden
Constance Cummings - Marion Slade
Edmund Gwenn - Trotter
Anthony Bushell - Peter Bradley
Dorothy Dickson - Vi Guthrie
Nigel Bruce - Nigel Guthrie
Douglas Jefferies - Dr. Walkley
H.G. Stoker - Captain R.H. Kilbee
Viola Lyel - Singer

Plot Synopsis

Drama set aboard a channel steamer bound for Calais, Lang plays a wealthy Dutch financier who has forged stock and is on the brink of exposure. When his secretary's boyfriend discovers his guilty secret he threatens to blackmail Lang; who panics and throws the man overboard. The ship’s captain organises a search party, and the soaked blackmailer is rescued. Lang realises the error of his ways.