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Backfire! (Original title)
Dates: 1961 (Copyright), 30 April 1962 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Paul Almond

Synopsis: Crime melodrama.

Genres:
Crime, Melodrama

Series title:

Credits (23)
©: Merton Park Studios Ltd., Produced by: Jack Greenwood, Associate Producer: Jim O'Connolly, Production Manager: Joe Levy, Assistant Director: Ted Lewis, Continuity: Gladys Goldsmith, Casting Director: Ronald Curtis, Screenplay by: Robert Stewart, Original story: Edgar Wallace, Director of Photography: Bert Mason, Camera Operator: Herbert Smith, Film Editor: Derek Holding, Art Director: Peter Mullins, Wardrobe: Eileen Welch, Make-up: Aldo Manganaro, Hairdresser: Hilda Fox, Music Composed and Conducted by: Bernard Ebbinghouse, Title Music by: Michael Carr, Sound Recordist: Sidney Rider, Ronald Abbott, Sound Editor: Brian Blamey, Sound System: Westrex Recording System
Cast (19)
Alfred Burke (Mitchell Logan), Zena Marshall (Pauline Logan), Oliver Johnston (Bernard Curzon), Noel Trevarthen (Jack Bryce), Suzanne Neve (Shirley Curzon), Derek Francis (Arthur Tilsley), John Cazabon (Willy Kyser), Madeleine Christie (Hannah Chenko), Claire Isbister (Valentina Chenko), Frank Hawkins (Inspector Fletcher), Donald Eccles (Hargreaves), Melody O'Brian (Thelma), Edwin Brown (commisionaire), Beresford Williams (nightwatchman), Bernard Kay (fire chief), Philip Ray (coroner), Audrey Nicholson (maid in hotel), Terry Bale (van man), Stuart Hutchinson (fireman)
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (3)
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v29 n340 May 1962  Page: 66
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v29 n340 May 1962: no known title]Language: English

In: The Daily Cinema n8588 21 Mar 1962  Page: 9
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n8588 21 Mar 1962: no known title]Language: English

In: Kine Weekly n2842 22 Mar 1962  Page: 10
Title: [Kine Weekly - n2842 22 Mar 1962: no known title]Language: English