Dancing with Crime

Dancing with Crime

Directed by	John Paddy Carstairs
Produced by	James Carter
Written by	Peter Fraser (story) Brock Williams (screenplay)
Starring	Richard Attenborough Barry K. Barnes Sheila Sim
Music by	Benjamin Frankel
Cinematography	Reginald Wyer
Edited by	Eily Boland
Production company	Southall Studios
Release dates	1947 (1947)
Running time	83 min
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Dancing with Crime is a 1947 British film directed by John Paddy Carstairs, starring Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes and Sheila Sim.

Plot

Boyhood friends and comrades in the Army, Ted Peters (Richard Attenborough) and Dave Robinson (Bill Rowbotham) are back in civvies. Ted becomes a taxi driver and hopes to marry Joy Goodall (Sheila Sim), a pretty chorus girl. Dave, seeking easy money, joins a gang which has its headquarters in a suburban palais-de-danse. The gang is headed by a man called Gregory (Barry Jones), and includes Paul Baker (Barry K. Barnes), and petty crooks Sniffy and Pogson. Ted refuses to join them.^[1]

Cast

Richard Attenborough as Ted Peters
Barry K. Barnes as Paul Baker
Sheila Sim as Joy Goodall
Garry Marsh as Sgt. Murray
John Warwick as Det. Insp. Carter
Judy Kelly as Toni
Barry Jones as Gregory
Bill Rowbotham as Dave Robinson
Cyril Chamberlain as Sniffy
John Salew as Pogson
Dirk Bogarde as Policeman

References

↑ Daily Mail Film Award Annual 1948

External links

Dancing with Crime at the Internet Movie Database
Review of film at Variety

Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs

Paris Plane (1933)
Holiday's End (1937)
Double Exposures (1937)
Night Ride (1937)
Missing, Believed Married (1937)
Incident in Shanghai (1938)
Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
The Saint in London (1939)
Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Spare a Copper (1940)
He Found a Star (1941)
Dancing with Crime (1947)
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Fools Rush In (1949)
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
Talk of a Million (1951)
Treasure Hunt (1952)
Made in Heaven (1952)
Top of the Form (1953)
Trouble in Store (1953)
Up to His Neck (1954)
One Good Turn (1955)
Man of the Moment (1955)
Jumping for Joy (1956)
Up in the World (1956)
Just My Luck (1957)
The Big Money (1958)
The Square Peg (1959)
Tommy the Toreador (1959)
Sands of the Desert (1960)
A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
The Devil's Agent (1962)

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