Conspirator (Original title)
Date: 29 August 1949 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Victor Saville
Synopsis: Melodrama: An officer in the Guards having passed a lonely childhood becomes a revolutionary & spies for the Cause. He marries to the disapproval of the Party. His wife learns his secret and he is ordered to kill her but fails and is ordered to liquidate himself; he does.
Genre: Melodrama
Releases
Date: 29 August 1949Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Length: 7603 FeetDialogue (original): English
Title: [Film Index - n30 1974: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v16 n188 August 1949
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v16 n188 August 1949: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v16 n188 August 1949 Page: 136
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v16 n188 August 1949: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v73 n5835 29 Jul 1949 Page: 7
Title: [Today's Cinema - v73 n5835 29 Jul 1949: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(1)
Film materials(1)
Description: 16mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-1574281
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Date: 29 August 1949 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Victor Saville
Synopsis: Melodrama: An officer in the Guards having passed a lonely childhood becomes a revolutionary & spies for the Cause. He marries to the disapproval of the Party. His wife learns his secret and he is ordered to kill her but fails and is ordered to liquidate himself; he does.
Genre: Melodrama
Releases
Date: 29 August 1949Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Length: 7603 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(21)
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Producer: Arthur Hornblow Jr, Unit Production Manager: Roy Parkinson, Production Manager: Dora Wright, Assistant Director: Harry Hassell, Continuity: Angela Martelli, Script: Sally Benson, Script: Gerard Fairlie, Original novel: Humphrey Slater, Photography: Freddie Young, Photographic Effects: Tom Howard, Camera Operator: Skeets Kelly, Editor: Frank Clarke, Production Designer: Alfred Junge, Construction Manager: Frank Gibson, Make-up: Charles Parker, Hair: Joan Johnstone, Music: John Wooldridge, Sound Recording: Sash Fisher, Sound: A.W. Watkins
Cast
(18)
Robert Taylor (Major Michael Curragh), Elizabeth Taylor (Melinda Greyton), Robert Flemyng (Captain Hugh Ladholme), Harold Warrender (Colonel Hammerbrook), Honor Blackman (Joyce), Marjorie Fielding (Aunt Jessica), Marie Ney (Lady Pennistone), Thora Hird (Broaders), Jack Allen (Raglan), Wilfred Hyde-white (Lord Pennistone), Helen Haye (Lady Witheringham), Cicely Paget-Bowman (Mrs Hammerbrook), Karel Stepanek (L.I. Radek), Nicholas Bruce (Alek), Cyril Smith (detective inspector), Michael Dear ([Alred, the office boy]), Janette Scott ([Toby]), Bill Travers ([uncredited])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(4)
In: Film Index n30 1974 Page: 110Title: [Film Index - n30 1974: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v16 n188 August 1949
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v16 n188 August 1949: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v16 n188 August 1949 Page: 136
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v16 n188 August 1949: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v73 n5835 29 Jul 1949 Page: 7
Title: [Today's Cinema - v73 n5835 29 Jul 1949: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(1)
Film materials(1)
Description: 16mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-1574281
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film