Tomorrow at Ten (Original title)Chance to Live (Working title)Golliwog (Working title)
Dates: 1962 (Copyright), 23 June 1963 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Lance Comfort
Synopsis: Thriller. The son of wealthy widow Anthony Chester is abducted and locked in the top-storey room of a secluded house, with a time bomb set for ten o'clock the next morning sewn into a golliwog doll. The kidnapper, Marlow, goes to Chester's house and demands £50,000; he intends to fly to South America from where he will telephone at seven o'clock the next morning with the location of the boy. Chester wishes to pay, as he can afford to, but Detective Inspector Parnell of the C.I.D. argues strenuously to his superior, Bewley, that this course of action would give a licence to kidnappers, and that Marlow must be persuaded to give in and talk. Parnell gets talking to Marlow and they engage in a battle of wits, in which the detective discovers that Marlow did not pick the golliwog at random, but that it represents a painful episode from his childhood. When Chester attacks Marlow and leaves him in a coma, time begins to run out. With the chances of Marlow speaking draining away, Parnell tracks down Marlow's parents, who run a seedy nightclub called The Golliwog Club. They have little contact with their son, though, and are unable to say where he might live. When the morning papers come out, featuring a picture of Marlow, a telephone call comes through to Scotland Yard, from an estate agent who believes he recently let Marlow a house. With minutes to go before ten o'clock, the police race to an address in Wimbledon...
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Kidnapping, Bombs, Policemen
Releases
Date: 23 June 1963Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 80 mins Length: 7210 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1962 (Copyright), 23 June 1963 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Lance Comfort
Synopsis: Thriller. The son of wealthy widow Anthony Chester is abducted and locked in the top-storey room of a secluded house, with a time bomb set for ten o'clock the next morning sewn into a golliwog doll. The kidnapper, Marlow, goes to Chester's house and demands £50,000; he intends to fly to South America from where he will telephone at seven o'clock the next morning with the location of the boy. Chester wishes to pay, as he can afford to, but Detective Inspector Parnell of the C.I.D. argues strenuously to his superior, Bewley, that this course of action would give a licence to kidnappers, and that Marlow must be persuaded to give in and talk. Parnell gets talking to Marlow and they engage in a battle of wits, in which the detective discovers that Marlow did not pick the golliwog at random, but that it represents a painful episode from his childhood. When Chester attacks Marlow and leaves him in a coma, time begins to run out. With the chances of Marlow speaking draining away, Parnell tracks down Marlow's parents, who run a seedy nightclub called The Golliwog Club. They have little contact with their son, though, and are unable to say where he might live. When the morning papers come out, featuring a picture of Marlow, a telephone call comes through to Scotland Yard, from an estate agent who believes he recently let Marlow a house. With minutes to go before ten o'clock, the police race to an address in Wimbledon...
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Kidnapping, Bombs, Policemen
Releases
Date: 23 June 1963Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 80 mins Length: 7210 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: Mancunian Film Corporation Ltd., Production Company: Blakeley's Productions, Presents: Mancunian Film Corporation, A Planet Film Distributors Ltd release: Planet Film Distributors Ltd, Produced by: Tom Blakeley, Production Manager: John Comfort, 1st Assistant Director: George Pollard, 2nd Assistant Director: John Stoneman, 3rd Assistant Director: Don Webb, Continuity: Phyllis Townshend, Original Story and Screenplay by: Peter Miller, James Kelly, Photography: Basil Emmott, Camera Operator: Frank Drake, Editor: John Trumper, Editor: Peter Pitt, Assistant Editor: Peter Murton, Art Director: Jack Shampan, Property Buyer: Bill Isaacs, Wardrobe Master: Bob Raynor, Make-up Artist: Peter Armsten, Music Composed, Arranged and Directed by: Bernie Fenton, Sound Camera Operator: Harry Richardson, Sound Mixer: Fred Turtle, Logo [Sound System]: Westrex Recording System, Made at: M.G.M. Studios
Cast
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John Gregson (Detective Inspector Parnell), Robert Shaw (George Marlow), Alec Clunes (Anthony Chester), Alan Wheatley (Assistant Commissioner Bewley), Kenneth Cope (Detective Sergeant Grey), Ernest Clark (Dr Towers), Renée Houston (Mrs Dorothy Maddox, 'Maisie'), Harry Fowler (Smiley), Helen Cherry (Robbie), Betty McDowall (Mrs Parnell), William Hartnell (Freddy Maddox), Piers Bishop (Jonathan Chester), Christopher Ellis (Christopher Parnell), Noel Howlett (brain specialist), Bernadette Woodman (1st nurse), Marguerite McCourt (2nd nurse), Ray Smith (Mr Briggs, junior estate agent), John Dunbar (Henry), Edward Rees (2nd desk sergeant), Robert Hunter (desk sergeant), Anthony Ashdown (Constable Jackson), Alan Curtis (inspector), Richard Armour, Kenneth Gilbert (hospital nurse), Frank Hawkins (Mr Tamplin, senior estate agent), Norman Coburn, Norman Hartley, Stephen Mayling, Peter Mason (desk man), Trevor Reid (Q detective), Neville Taylor (bongo player), Lesley Allen (dancer)