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Dancing with Crime Directed by John Paddy Carstairs Produced by James Carter Written by Peter Fraser (story)
Brock Williams (screenplay)Starring Richard Attenborough as Ted Peters
Barry K. Barnes as Paul Baker
Sheila Sim as Joy Goodall
Barry Jones as Gregory
Bill Rowbotham as Dave Robinson
John Warwick as Detective Inspector CarterMusic by Benjamin Frankel Cinematography Reginald Wyer Editing by Eily Boland Studio Southall Studios Release date(s) 1947 Running time 83 min Country United Kingdom Language English Dancing with Crime is a 1947 British film directed by John Paddy Carstairs with a screenplay by Brock Williams from an original story by Peter Fraser.
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Plot
Boyhood friends and comrades in the Army, Ted Peters (Richard Attenborough) and Dave Robinson (Bill Rowbotham) are back in civvies. Ted becomes a taxi driver and hopes to marry Joy Goodall, a pretty chorus girl. Dave, seeking easy money, joins a gang which has its headquarters in a suburban palais-de-danse. The gang is headed by a man called Gregory (Barry Jones), and includes Paul Baker (Barry K. Barnes), and petty crooks Sniffy and Pogson. Ted refuses to join them.[1]
Cast
- Richard Attenborough as Ted Peters
- Sheila Sim as Joy Goodall
- Garry Marsh as Sgt. Murray
- John Warwick as Det. Insp. Carter
- Judy Kelly as Toni
- Barry Jones as Gregory
- Bill Owen as Dave Robinson
- Dirk Bogarde as Policeman
- Barry K. Barnes as Paul Baker
References
- ^ Daily Mail Film Award Annual 1948
External links
Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs 1930s Paris Plane (1933) · Holiday's End (1937) · Double Exposures (1937) · Night Ride (1937) · Missing, Believed Married (1937) · Incident in Shanghai (1938) · Lassie from Lancashire (1938) · The Saint in London (1939)1940s Meet Maxwell Archer (1940) · The Second Mr. Bush (1940) · Spare a Copper (1940) · He Found a Star (1941) · Dancing with Crime (1947) · Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) · Fools Rush In (1949) · The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)1950s Tony Draws a Horse (1950) · Talk of a Million (1951) · Treasure Hunt (1952) · Top of the Form (1953) · Made in Heaven (1953) · Trouble in Store (1953) · One Good Turn (1955) · Up to His Neck (1955) · Man of the Moment (1955) · Jumping for Joy (1956) · Up in the World (1956) · Just My Luck (1957) · The Big Money (1958) · The Square Peg (1959) · Tommy the Toreador (1959)1960s Sands of the Desert (1960) · A Weekend with Lulu (1961) · Im Namen des Teufels (1961) · The Devil's Agent (1962)Categories:- English-language films
- British films
- 1947 films
- British crime films
- Southall Studios films
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