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Man from Tangier
U.S. 1-sheet poster
Directed by Lance Comfort
Written by Paddy Manning O'Brine
Produced byW.G. Chalmers
Starring Robert Hutton
Lisa Gastoni
Martin Benson
Derek Sydney
Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by Peter Mayhew
Music by Wilfred Burns
Production
company
Distributed byButcher's Film Service (UK)
Republic Pictures (US)
Release date
  • 27 June 1957 (1957-06-27) (UK [1])
Running time
67 mins [2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Man from Tangier (released in the United States as Thunder over Tangier) is a 1957 British second feature [3] crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni and Martin Benson. [4]

Plot

A criminal flees from Tangier to London with forged money plates, leading to the gang he works for sending a dangerous woman to pursue him.

Main cast

Releases

Man in Tangier was cut by the British Board of Film Classification to 67 minutes running time, in order to achieve a "U" classification. [2] The film premiered at Odeon Marble Arch in London on 27 January 1957, where it ran as a double bill together with Monkey on My Back (1957). [1]

In April 2011 the film was released on DVD as a double bill together with director Lance Comfort's 1961 film The Breaking Point. [5]

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A fairly competent thriller, in which the upholders of the law are considerably more convincing than the crooks, with their alternating foreign and public-school accents. The story is very vaguely constructed; initially there seems very little reason for introducing Tangier; towards the end the action is almost incoherent." [6]

References

  1. ^ a b The Times, Thursday 27 January 1957, page 2: First ever appearance of Man from Tangier in the classified ads for "picture theatres", showing at Odeon Marble Arch together with Monkey on My Back - Found in The Times Digital Archive 2014-04-30
  2. ^ a b BBFC: Man from Tangier (1957) Linked 2014-04-30
  3. ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/ Bloomsbury. p. 106. ISBN  978-1-8445-7319-6.
  4. ^ "Man from Tangier". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  5. ^ Amazon UK: Breaking Point/Man from Tangier Linked 2014-04-30
  6. ^ "Man from Tangier". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 24 (276): 103. 1 January 1957 – via ProQuest.

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External links

  1. ^ "Breaking Point/Man from Tangier". Retrieved 26 December 2023.