The Intruder (1953 film)

The Intruder

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Produced by Ivan Foxwell
Written by John Hunter
Robin Maugham
Anthony Squire
Starring Jack Hawkins
George Cole
Dennis Price
Michael Medwin
Music by Francis Chagrin
Cinematography Edward Scaife
Release dates
  • 19 October 1953 (1953-10-19)
Running time
84 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Box office £161,488 (UK)[1]

The Intruder is a 1953 British drama film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Jack Hawkins, George Cole, Dennis Price and Michael Medwin.[2] The film is based on the 1949 novel by Robin Maugham called The Line on Ginger.

Post-war London is the backdrop including Belgravia, Covent Garden market, Loughborough Junction and the Dulwich Hospital.

A contemporary critic commented that the film treated the subject "with intelligence, taste, and a feeling for the medium"; he also wrote "Medwin... gives a brilliant study of a good fellow gone wrong".[3]

Plot

Ex-Colonel, now stockbroker, Wolf Merton (Jack Hawkins) returns home to find it being burgled by an armed intruder. Merton recognises the culprit, Ginger Edwards (Michael Medwin), as a former soldier who had fought under his command in a tank regiment during the Second World War. They discuss how Summers arrived at a life of crime but the burglar runs off.

The officer sets out to discover why one of his best men became involved in crime after he was de-mobbed. This is reflected in several flash-back episodes in which events during the war are contrasted with how each of the main characters cope with life in civvy street.[4]

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Francis Chagrin, conducted by Muir Mathieson.[4]

References

  1. Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p499
  2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048211/
  3. Campbell Dixon, The Daily Telegraph, 17 October 1953, quoted in BFI programme note, 2012.
  4. 1 2 British Film Institute page about The Intruder Retrieved 23 February 2012

External links

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