Face the Music

 

Face the Music - 1953 | 84 mins | Crime | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Terence Fisher.
Producer: Michael Carreras.
Script: Ernest Borneman. (from the novel by Ernest Borneman)
Cinematography: Walter J. Harvey.
Film Editing: Maurice Rootes.
Art Direction: J. Elder Wills.
Makeup Department: Nina Broe and Philip Leakey.
Sound Department: George Burgess and Bill Salter.
Original Music: Kenny Baker.

The Cast

Alex Nicol - James 'Brad' Bradley
Eleanor Summerfield - Barbara Quigley
John Salew - Maxie Margulies
Paul Carpenter - Johnny Sutherland
Geoffrey Keen - Maurie Green
Ann Hanslip - Maxine Halbard
Fred Johnson - Detective Sergeant MacKenzie
Martin Boddey - Inspector Mulrooney

Plot Synopsis

Face the Music mixes music with crime. Suspected of murdering a singer, idolised trumpeter James Bradley (Alex Nicol) finds himself wrongly accused of murder and sets out to clear his name. Finally, he uses a tape-recorder and snapshots to prove that recording studio manager Maurice Green (Geoffrey Keen) is a dangerous psychopath and a real killer.