Yellow Canary (Original title)
Date: 22 November 1943 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Herbert Wilcox
Synopsis: Spy melodrama about a girl who openly avows Nazi opinions and is sent to Canada, where, being in fact a British agent, she foils a Nazi plot.
Genre: War
Subjects: World War II, Espionage, Canada
Releases
Date: 1943Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8843 FeetDialogue (original): English
Title: [New York Motion Picture Critics Reviews - v1 n2 22 May 1944: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Description: Several reviews by the Motion Picture Critics
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v10 n118 October 1943 Page: 111
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v10 n118 October 1943: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v61 n4945 20 Oct 1943
Title: [Today's Cinema - v61 n4945 20 Oct 1943: no known title]Language: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n1905 21 Oct 1943
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n1905 21 Oct 1943: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v153 n8 20 Nov 1943
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v153 n8 20 Nov 1943: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(5)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 8815 FeetStock date: 1990BFI identifier: C-618181
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Film materials(5)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-198698
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 8815 FeetStock date: 1990BFI identifier: C-618181
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 8802 FeetBFI identifier: C-198697
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 8801 FeetStock date: 1943BFI identifier: C-198695
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 8800 FeetStock date: 1943BFI identifier: C-198696
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Date: 22 November 1943 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Herbert Wilcox
Synopsis: Spy melodrama about a girl who openly avows Nazi opinions and is sent to Canada, where, being in fact a British agent, she foils a Nazi plot.
Genre: War
Subjects: World War II, Espionage, Canada
Releases
Date: 1943Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8843 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(22)
An RKO Radio Picture: RKO Radio Pictures, Produced by: Herbert Wilcox, Production Manager: George Maynard, Assistant Director: Frank Hollands, Screen Play: Miles Malleson, De Witt Bodeen, [Based on a story] By: P.M. Bower, Director of Photography: Max Greene, Editor: Vera Campbell, Art Direction: W.C. Andrews, Make-up: Tony Sforzini, Musical Score by: Clifton Parker, Music Performed by: London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recordist: John Stevens, Recordist: Desmond Dew, Sound Editor: Harry Miller, Technical Adviser: Lt. Comm. H. Longdon R.n., Technical Adviser: L/o L.J. Wastell, logo: Western Electric, Made at: D&P Studios
Cast
(33)
Anna Neagle (Sally Maitland), Richard Greene (Jim Garrick), Nova Pilbeam (Betty Maitland), Lucie Mannheim (Madame Orlock), Albert Lieven (Jan Orlock), Cyril Fletcher (himself), George Thorpe (Colonel Hargreaves), Marjorie Fielding (Lady Maitland), Franklin Dyall (captain), Margaret Rutherford (Mrs Towcaster), Claude Bailey (Major Fothergill), Sybilla Binder (.), Valentine Dyall (German commander), Patrick Curwen ([Sir William Maitland]), Aubrey Mallalieu ([Reynolds]), David Horne ([admiral]), Leslie Dwyer ([steward]), Gordon McLeod ([officer]), Paul Dupuis ([Paul]), Eliot Makeham, Ian Fleming ([firewatcher]), Hedley Goodall ([passport officer]), Winifred Oughton ([Mrs Hargraves]), David Ward ([Sally's escort]), MacDonald Parke ([intelligence chief]), Gerry Wilmot, John Kannowin ([intelligence officer]), Clifford Buckton ([captain of the 'Christiani']), Grace Allardyce ([Maitland's maid]), Anthony Eustrel ([commissionaire]), Grizelda Hervey ([receptionist]), Tatiana Lieven ([chambermaid]), Edgar Driver ([guard])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(5)
In: New York Motion Picture Critics Reviews v1 n2 22 May 1944 Page: 407,408Title: [New York Motion Picture Critics Reviews - v1 n2 22 May 1944: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Description: Several reviews by the Motion Picture Critics
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v10 n118 October 1943 Page: 111
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v10 n118 October 1943: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v61 n4945 20 Oct 1943
Title: [Today's Cinema - v61 n4945 20 Oct 1943: no known title]Language: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n1905 21 Oct 1943
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n1905 21 Oct 1943: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v153 n8 20 Nov 1943
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v153 n8 20 Nov 1943: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(5)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 8815 FeetStock date: 1990BFI identifier: C-618181
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Film materials(5)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-198698
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 8815 FeetStock date: 1990BFI identifier: C-618181
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 8802 FeetBFI identifier: C-198697
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 8801 FeetStock date: 1943BFI identifier: C-198695
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 8800 FeetStock date: 1943BFI identifier: C-198696
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film