Vengeance Is Mine
Directed byAlan Cullimore
Written byAlan Cullimore
Produced byBen Arbeid
StarringValentine Dyall
Anne Firth
Richard Goolden
CinematographyJames Wilson
Edited byGerald Landau
Music byKen Thorne
Production
company
Cullimore-Arbeid Productions
Distributed byEros Films
Release date
July 1949
Running time
59 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Vengeance Is Mine is a 1949 British second feature[1] crime drama film directed by Alan Cullimore and starring Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth and Richard Goolden.[2]

Plot

Charles Heywood is a wrongly imprisoned businessman who is told by his doctors that he is dying. He constructs an elaborate plan to hire a hitman to kill him and then frame his former partner, who put him behind bars.

Cast

  • Valentine Dyall as Charles Heywood
  • Anne Firth as Linda Farrell
  • Richard Goolden as Sammy Parsons
  • Sam Kydd as Stacy
  • Ethel Coleridge as Mrs Briggs
  • Patsy Drake as Patsy
  • Alexander Wright as the doctor
  • Russell Westwood as Cass
  • Manville Tarrant as man
  • Alex Graham as barman
  • John Hart as barman
  • Arthur Brander as Richard Kemp
  • Roland Caswell as Police Sargeant
  • Michael Bird as policeman
  • Bob Connor as garage man
  • Betty Taylor as the little girl

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "This absurd story is not helped by the lugubrious playing of Valentine Dyall as Charles; overstressing of the comic relief and third-rate acting destroy any remaining likelihood of reality."[3]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "poor", writing: "Absurd thriller: even the cast don't seem enthusiastic."[4]

References

  1. ↑ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ↑ "Vengeance Is Mine". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Vengeance Is Mine". Monthly Film Bulletin. 16 (181): 137. 1949 – via ProQuest.
  4. ↑ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 257. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.


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