Soho Incident
Soho Incident | |
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Directed by | Vernon Sewell |
Screenplay by | Ian Stuart Black |
Based on | Robert Westerby (based on the novel) ("Wide Boys Never Work") |
Produced by | M. J. Frankovich George Maynard |
Starring | Faith Domergue Lee Patterson |
Cinematography | Basil Emmott |
Edited by | Peter Rolfe Johnson |
Music by | Robert Sharples |
Production company | Frankovich Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Soho Incident, released in the United States as Spin a Dark Web, is a 1956 British film noir directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Faith Domergue and Lee Patterson.[1]
The screenplay is based on Wide Boys Never Work, a novel by Robert Westerby.
Plot[]
Jim Bankley (Patterson) a Canadian veteran living in London, is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. He falls in love with Bella Francesi (Domergue), sister of local Sicilian mob leader Rico Francesi (Benson), and she soon draws him into the gang's activities. When he finds himself being drawn into a murder plot, he finally realizes that his lover is only using him, and determines to escape the gang - but things don't turn out the way he planned.
Cast[]
- Faith Domergue as Bella Francesi
- Lee Patterson as Jim Bankley
- Rona Anderson as Betty Walker
- Martin Benson as Rico Francesi
- Robert Arden as Buddy
- Joss Ambler as Tom Walker
- Peter Hammond as Bill Walker
- Peter Burton as Inspector Collis
- Sam Kydd as Sam
- Russell Westwood as Mick
- Patricia Ryan as Audrey
- Bernard Fox as McLeod
References[]
- ^ Soho Incident at the BFI Database
External links[]
Categories:
- 1956 films
- English-language films
- British films
- 1956 crime films
- Film noir
- Films set in London
- Columbia Pictures films
- British crime films
- 1950s crime film stubs