Interpol (1957 film)

Interpol
Original US film poster
Directed by	John Gilling
Produced by	Albert R. Broccoli Irving Allen
Written by	John Paton
Based on	Interpol 1955 novel by A.J. Forrest
Starring	Victor Mature Anita Ekberg Trevor Howard
Music by	Richard Rodney Bennett
Cinematography	Ted Moore
Edited by	Richard Best
Production company	Warwick Films
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	2 April 1957
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Interpol known in the USA as Pickup Alley is a 1957 British Warwick Films crime film shot in CinemaScope starring Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano and Sid James.^[1] It concerns an Interpol effort to stamp out a major drug-smuggling cartel in numerous countries around the world. Victor Mature plays a US narcotics officer, with Trevor Howard as a drug baron. One reviewer described the film as a "feeble thriller", although it praised the performance of Howard.^[2] In the United States it was released as a double feature with The Brothers Rico.^[3]

Plot summary

Charles Sturgis (Victor Mature) is an FBI agent on the trail of a drug smuggling operation, following his quarry all over the Continent. The criminal mastermind Frank McNally (Trevor Howard) is something of a lunatic, who has already strangled Mature's sister to death just for the hell of it. Gina Broger (Anita Ekberg) is Frank's luscious courier.^[4]

Cast

Victor Mature as Charles Sturgis
Anita Ekberg as Gina Broger
Trevor Howard as Frank McNally
Bonar Colleano as Amalio
Dorothy Alison as Helen
André Morell as Commissioner Breckner
Martin Benson as Captain Varolli
Eric Pohlmann as Etienne Fayala
Peter Illing as Captain Baris
Sydney Tafler as Curtis
Lionel Murton as Murphy
Danny Green as Second Bartender
Alec Mango as Salko
Sid James as Joe as First Bartender
Marne Maitland as Guido Martinelli
Harold Kasket as Kalish

Production

The story was based on the files of the International Criminal Police Commission. Shooting took place in New York, Paris, Rome, Madrid, London and Athens.^[5]

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37705
↑ Radio Times. Guide to Films (2004). p.708
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050841/
↑ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/pickup-alley-v106067
↑ GREGORY TO FILM NOVEL BY KANTOR: Producer Will Make 'On My Honor' From 'God and My Country' for R.K.O. Warwick Signs Two Of Local Origin By OSCAR GODBOUT Special to The New York Times.. New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 23 June 1956: 15.

External links

Interpol at the Internet Movie Database
Interpol at AllMovie
Interpol at the TCM Movie Database
Pickup Alley at the American Film Institute Catalog

Films directed by John Gilling

Escape from Broadmoor (1948)
A Matter of Murder (1949)
No Trace (1950)
The Quiet Woman (1951)
The Frightened Man (1952)
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
The Voice of Merrill (1952)
Deadly Nightshade (1953)
Recoil (1953)
Escape by Night (1953)
Three Steps to the Gallows (1953)
Destination Milan (1954)
Double Exposure (1954)
The Embezzler (1954)
The Gilded Cage (1955)
Tiger by the Tail (1955)
Odongo (1956)
The Gamma People (1956)
Interpol (1957)
High Flight (1957)
The Man Inside (1958)
Idol on Parade (1959)
The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
The Challenge (1960)
Fury at Smugglers' Bay (1961)
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
Panic (1963)
The Scarlet Blade (1964 )
The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
The Night Caller (1965)
Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
The Reptile (1966)
The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
La cruz del diablo (1975)

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