Double Confession

Double Confession
Directed by	Ken Annakin
Produced by	Harry Reynolds
Screenplay by	William Templeton
Starring	Derek Farr
Music by	Benjamin Frankel
Cinematography	Geoffrey Unsworth
Edited by	Carmen Beliaeff
Production company	ABPC
Release dates	1 May 1950
Running time	80 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	£102,299 (UK)^[1]

Double Confession is a 1950 British crime film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre and William Hartnell. The screenplay, written by William Templeton, is based on the book All On A Summer's Day by HLV Fletcher, written under the pen name "John Garden".

Double Confession was missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.^[2] In February 2013 a restored edition was released on DVD by Renown Pictures in the UK.

Cast

Derek Farr as Jim Medway
Joan Hopkins as Ann Corday
Peter Lorre as Paynter
William Hartnell as Charlie Durham
Naunton Wayne as Inspector Tenby
Ronald Howard as Hilary Boscombe
Kathleen Harrison as Kate
Leslie Dwyer as Leonard
Edward Rigby as The Fisherman
George Woodbridge as Sergeant Swanton
Henry Edwards as Man in the Shelter
Mona Washbourne as Fussy Mother
Vida Hope as Madam Zilia
Esma Cannon as Madame Cleo
Fred Griffiths as The Spiv
Hal Osmond as Gallery Attendant
Roy Plomley as Ticket Collector

References

↑ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p492
↑ "Double Confession / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute.

External links

BFI 75 Most Wanted entry, with extensive notes
Double Confession at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ken Annakin

It Began on the Clyde (1946)
Fenlands (1946)
Holiday Camp (1947)
Miranda (1948)
Broken Journey (1948)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Landfall (1949)
Double Confession (1950)
Trio (1950)
Hotel Sahara (1951)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
The Planter's Wife (1952)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
The Seekers (1954)
Value for Money (1955)
Loser Takes All (1956)
Three Men in a Boat (1956)
Across the Bridge (1957)
Nor the Moon by Night (1958)
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Very Important Person (1961)
The Hellions (1961)
The Fast Lady (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
The Informers (1963)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Long Duel (1967)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Paper Tiger (1975)
The Pirate (1978)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)
The Pirate Movie (1982)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)

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