Fine tale of British submariners during the Second World War, with John Mills as the vessel’s commander and a solid cast of crewmen, most notably Eric Portman as the hydrophone operator. The submarine Sea Tiger is sent to sink a new German battleship, but their quarry has escaped into the Baltic Sea, where they pursue, …
Read the full post →“<em>We Dive at Dawn</em> (Gainsborough / Gaumont British, 1943)”
Spooky doings at a lighthouse whose lamp mysteriously goes out from time to time, even as another ghostly light appears to lead vessels to their doom. It’s all a bit of a jumble, with a few bits unclear even at the end, but Gordon Harker is good as the new lighthouse keeper, dealing with irregular …
The disappearance of a dead body at a costume ball and the reappearance of the same corpse later in a train wreck set private detective John Harwood (Edmund Lowe) and insurance investigator Caryl Fenton (Constance Cummings) on the trail of conspiracy and international crime, as they look for the sinister villain who has caused not …
Read the full post →“<em>Seven Sinners</em> (Gaumont British, 1936)”
