Blackout (Original title)
Date: 1950 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert S. Baker
Synopsis: Thriller. Blind Chris Pelley is looking forward to having an operation which may bring back his eyesight. He is given a lift to London to attend a friend's party, but due to an address error on the driver's part, he arrives at the wrong building. Inside, he stumbles across the dead body of a man with a knife in his back. Pelley pockets a ring he finds on the floor by the body. A trio of thugs confront Pelley and, when they realise he is blind, they merely knock him out (since he has not seen their faces). Waking up in hospital, Pelley is persuaded that his unlikely adventure was a bad dream. Duly he regains his eyesight. When the ring from the crime scene turns up in his jacket pocket, he is convinced that he was indeed involved in a mystery. Setting out to catch out the killers, he visits the house of the crime again and learns that a man who lived there supposedly died in an air crash a year earlier. The man's twin sister, Pat, helps Pelley investigate further and they begin to uncover a currency smuggling gang.
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Blindness, Homicide, Smuggling
Title: [Today's Cinema - v75 n6083 18 Sep 1950: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v17 n201 October 1950 Page: 152
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v17 n201 October 1950: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(5)
Film materials(5)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 6608 FeetStock date: 1949BFI identifier: C-8776
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: SafetySound: MuteLength: 6608 FeetStock date: 1984BFI identifier: C-8774
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 6608 FeetStock date: 1950BFI identifier: C-8775
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Master PositiveBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 6605 FeetBFI identifier: C-8773
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 6608 FeetStock date: 1950BFI identifier: C-8779
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Date: 1950 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert S. Baker
Synopsis: Thriller. Blind Chris Pelley is looking forward to having an operation which may bring back his eyesight. He is given a lift to London to attend a friend's party, but due to an address error on the driver's part, he arrives at the wrong building. Inside, he stumbles across the dead body of a man with a knife in his back. Pelley pockets a ring he finds on the floor by the body. A trio of thugs confront Pelley and, when they realise he is blind, they merely knock him out (since he has not seen their faces). Waking up in hospital, Pelley is persuaded that his unlikely adventure was a bad dream. Duly he regains his eyesight. When the ring from the crime scene turns up in his jacket pocket, he is convinced that he was indeed involved in a mystery. Setting out to catch out the killers, he visits the house of the crime again and learns that a man who lived there supposedly died in an air crash a year earlier. The man's twin sister, Pat, helps Pelley investigate further and they begin to uncover a currency smuggling gang.
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Blindness, Homicide, Smuggling
Credits
(23)
A Tempean production: Tempean, Presents: Eros Films, Produced by: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman, Production Manager: James Shingfield, Assistant Director: Alf Keating, Continuity: Shirley Barnes, Screenplay by: John Gilling, From a story by: Carl Nystrom, Director of Photography: Monty Berman, Camera Operator: Eric Besche, [Focus Puller]: Desmond Davis, Editor: Gerald Landau, Art Director: Walter Scott, Miss Sheridan's Costumes by: Jacey, Make-up: Gerry Fairbank, Coiffure: Ivy Emmerton, Music Composed by: John Lanchberry, Musical Director: Eric Robinson, Sound Supervisor: George Burgess, Recordist: Len Page, Produced at: Alliance Studios
Cast
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Maxwell Reed (Chris Pelley), Dinah Sheridan (Pat Dale), Patric Doonan (Chalky), Kynaston Reeves (Mr Dale), Annette Simmonds (Lila Drew), Eric Pohlmann (Otto), Michael Evans (Guy Sinclair), Michael Brennan (Mickey), Ernest Butcher (Benny), Campbell Singer (inspector), Madoline Thomas (housekeeper), Basil Appleby (Norman Dale), Ronald Leigh Hunt (Dr Langley), Pat Metcalfe (maid), Ida Patlanski (postmistress), Jean Lodge (nurse)
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
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In: Today's Cinema v75 n6083 18 Sep 1950Title: [Today's Cinema - v75 n6083 18 Sep 1950: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v17 n201 October 1950 Page: 152
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v17 n201 October 1950: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(5)
Film materials(5)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 6608 FeetStock date: 1949BFI identifier: C-8776
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: SafetySound: MuteLength: 6608 FeetStock date: 1984BFI identifier: C-8774
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 6608 FeetStock date: 1950BFI identifier: C-8775
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Master PositiveBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 6605 FeetBFI identifier: C-8773
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 6608 FeetStock date: 1950BFI identifier: C-8779
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film