Man from Tangier | |
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Directed by | Lance Comfort |
Written by | Paddy Manning O'Brine |
Produced by | W.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 by | Butcher's Film Service (UK) Republic Pictures (US) |
Release date |
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Running time | 67 mins [2] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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]
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.
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]
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]