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- BFI identifier38806
- Date1962 (Copyright)
1963-06-23 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisThriller. 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... (Synopsis)
- Work historyLocation note: The location used for the house where the kidnapper is holding the child is Abbots Mead, in Barnet Lane, Elstree. From 1965 to 1979, this was the home of Stanley Kubrick (as commemorated now in a blue plaque). The interior stairwell in the film matches that of the real house (as visited by Katharina Kubrick in a 2015 video).
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- CreditsDirected by: Lance Comfort
©: Mancunian Film Corporation Ltd.
Production Company: Blakeley's Productions [uncredited]
view all - CastJohn Gregson (Detective Inspector Parnell)
Robert Shaw (George Marlow)
Alec Clunes (Anthony Chester)
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Title
Tomorrow at Ten (Original)
Chance to Live (Working)
Golliwog (Working)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/2BDF-E531-605A-19E0-7262-2Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- +Tomorrow at Ten
Work - 38806 - 1962 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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