The Heart Within (Original title)
Date: 26 August 1957 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: David Eady
Synopsis: A Jamaican dockside worker suspected of killing his spiv compatriot hides from the police in panic but is befriended by paper-boy and his grandfather. Through the lad's sharpness, a drug-smuggling racket is finally brought home to the culprit, who meets with death on a wharf.
Genre: Crime
Subjects: Race relations, Dockers
Releases
Date: 17 July 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 61 mins 37 secs - Length: 5518 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
Date: 19 November 1997Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: VHS Videocassette - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 59 mins 07 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Video Collection International
Date: 19 October 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 59 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 26 August 1957 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: David Eady
Synopsis: A Jamaican dockside worker suspected of killing his spiv compatriot hides from the police in panic but is befriended by paper-boy and his grandfather. Through the lad's sharpness, a drug-smuggling racket is finally brought home to the culprit, who meets with death on a wharf.
Genre: Crime
Subjects: Race relations, Dockers
Releases
Date: 17 July 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 61 mins 37 secs - Length: 5518 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
Date: 19 November 1997Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: VHS Videocassette - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 59 mins 07 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Video Collection International
Date: 19 October 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 59 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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Production Company: Penington-Eady Productions, Producer: Jon Penington, Production Supervisor: William Boyle, Assistant Director: Peter Crowhurst, Continuity: Yvonne Richards, Screenplay: Geoffrey Orme, Original story: John Baxter, Director of Photography: Ernest Palmer, Camera Operator: Desmond Davis, Focus Puller: Manny Wynn, [Loader]: David Falconer Rea, Editor: Peter Pitt, Art Director: Denis Wreford, Make-up: Michael Morris, Hairdressing: Bobby Smith, Music: Vivian Comma, Music: Edwin Astley, Music Performed by: Kings of the Caribbean, Music Director: Edwin Astley, Sound: Fred Turtle, Sound: Dave Goghan, Made at: Twickenham Film Studios
Cast
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James Hayter (Grandfather G.H. Willard), Clifford Evans (Mathew Johnson), Earl Cameron (Victor Conway), David Hemmings (Danny Willard), Dan Jackson (Joe Martell), Jack Stewart (inspector Matheson), Betty Cooper (miss Trevor), Gloria Simpson (Violet), Frank Singuineau (Bobo), Pauline Henriques (Ella), Janice Hughes (Dilli), Denton De Gray (Gow), Wally Thomas (sergeant), Glyn Edwards (1st constable), Ivor Salter (2nd constable), Frank Pettit (3rd constable), Bryan Tyler (1st boy), Dawson France (2nd boy)