Troubled Waters (1936 film)
Troubled Waters | |
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Directed by | Albert Parker |
Written by | Gerard Fairlie |
Story by | |
Produced by | |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Roy Kellino |
Edited by | Cecil H. Williamson |
Production company | Fox-British Pictures |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Company (UK) |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Troubled Waters is a 1936 British mystery film directed by Albert Parker and starring James Mason, Virginia Cherrill, Alastair Sim, Raymond Lovell and Sam Wilkinson.[1]
Premise[]
A government agent (James Mason) exposes smugglers in a British town with a dwindling spring mineral water business.[2]
Cast[]
- Mac MacTavish - Alastair Sim
- June Elkhardt - Virginia Cherrill
- John Merriman - James Mason
- Carter - Raymond Lovell
- Dr Garthwaite - Bellenden Powell
- Lightning - Sam Wilkinson
- Timothy Golightly - Peter Popp
- Ezra Elkhardt - W.T. Ellwanger
Critical reception[]
TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars, and wrote, "The action is sustained throughout and Mason, as usual, is very good." This was not in response to the film's actual premiere but at least twenty years later, as the first TV Guide was not published until 1953.[3]
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Categories:
- 1936 films
- English-language films
- British films
- British mystery films
- Films directed by Albert Parker
- British black-and-white films
- 1936 mystery films
- 1930s British film stubs