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Forbidden (Original title)Scarlet Heaven (Alternative title)A Lady Was to Die (Alternative title)
Date: 1949 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: George King

Synopsis: Story of a man who sells patent medicine at a Blackpool fairground and who believes he has killed his wife.

Genre:
Thriller

Subject:
Blackpool
Releases
Date: 1949Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Length: 7950 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (20)
Production Company: Pennant Picture Productions, Producer: George King, Production Manager: Harold S. Richmond, Assistant Director: Stanley Couzins, Continuity: Shirley Barnes, Screenplay: Katherine Strueby, From a story by: Val Valentine, Director of Photography: Hone Glendinning, Camera Operator: Bob Day, Editor: Douglas Myers, Art Director: Bernard Robinson, Dresses: Strassner, Cottons: Horrocks Ltd., Wardrobe Mistress: A.E. Binney, Hairdresser: Jean Bear, Music: George Melachrino, Sound Supervisor: George Burgess, Sound Mixer: Cecil Mason, Studio: Riverside Studios
Cast (21)
Douglass Montgomery (Jim Harding), Hazel Court (Jeannie Thompson), Patricia Burke (Diana Harding), Garry Marsh (Jerry Burns), Ronald Shiner (Dan Collins), Kenneth Griffiths (Johnny), Eliot Makeham (Pop Thompson), Frederick Leister (Dr John Franklin), Richard Bird (Jennings), Michael Medwin (cabby), Andrew Cruickshank (Inspector Baxter), Peggy Ann Clifford (Millie), William Douglas (Lawson), Dennis Harkin (Bert), Peter Jones (Pete), Dora Stevening (Mrs. Franklin), Erik Chitty (Schofield), Audrey Teesdale (Ethel), Mark Stone (critic), Sam Kydd (Joe), Eric Whittle (Alec)