Double Exposures

CinematographyHone GlendinningEdited byJohn Seabourne Sr.Music byJack BeaverDistributed byParamount British Pictures (U.K.)67 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Double Exposures (A.K.A. Alibi Breaker) is a 1937 British crime film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring David Langton, Julien Mitchell and Ruby Miller.^[1] It was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie.^[2] (David Langton is credited under the name Basil Langton, his birth name being Basil Muir Langton-Dodds. He later changed his acting name to David as there was another actor called Basil Langton.)

Plot

Reporter Peter Bradfield (David Langton under the name Basil Langton) is fired from his newspaper for failing to deliver an interview with big businessman Hector Rodman (Julien Mitchell). Plucky Bradfield subsequently becomes a photographic equipment salesman, and accidentally takes photos of two men in conversation. Unbeknown to him, these men are the businessmen's lawyer and his secretary, and are plotting to embezzle a fortune in bonds from Rodman, and planning to frame his workshy son George (George Astley) for the crime.

Cast

• David Langton (under the name Basil Langton) as Peter Bradfield
• Julien Mitchell as Hector Rodman
• Ruby Miller as Mrs. Rodman
• Brian Buchel as Geoffrey Cranswick
• Mavis Clair as Jill Rodman
• Fred Withers as Allbutt
• Ivor Barnard as Mather
• George Astley as George Rodman
• Frank Birch as Kempton
• Denis Cowles as Police Inspector

Critical reception

TV Guide called the film a "Negligible British effort";^[3] while Nineacre called it a "Cheap but cheerful film, mainly due to Langton who plays a flippant gadabout town that populated these sorts of film."^[4]

References

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

• Double Exposures at IMDb