Tower of Terror (1941 film)

Tower of Terror
Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Produced by John Argyle
Written by John Reinhardt (story)
John Argyle
Starring Wilfrid Lawson
Michael Rennie
Movita
Morland Graham
Music by Charles Williams
Cinematography Ronald Anscombe
Walter J. Harvey
Bryan Langley
Edited by Flora Newton
Production
company
Distributed by Pathé Pictures
Release dates
27 December 1941
Running time
78 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Tower of Terror is a 1941 British thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Michael Rennie and Movita.[1] It was made at Welwyn Studios with location shooting on Flat Holm off the Welsh coast.[2]

Plot

Anthony Hale is a British secret agent in Germany who takes a job as assistant to lighthouse keeper Wolfe Kristan; and who plans to make off with some valuable papers when a British boat arrives to pick them up. Marie meanwhile has escaped from a concentration camp and swims to the lighthouse, where she is rescued by the deranged Kristan, who sees in her the image of a wife he killed 16 years earlier and buried on the lighthouse grounds. Can Hale rescue Marie from a similar fate at the lighthouse keepers hands?

Cast

Critical reception

The New York Times called it a "dire little melodrama...A penny dreadful thriller about a mad lighthouse keeper on the German-occupied coast, it cannot overcome the lacks of a preposterous story preposterously acted or a sound track which gives the impression that every one is speaking with a gag over the mouth. Even Wilfrid Lawson, that excellent actor, gives a ludicrously overwrought portrait of insanity as the keeper...Not good" ; [3] while The Horror Hothouse wrote, "I thought Tower of Terror was a lot of fun, sure you could drive a bus through some of the wide gaping holes in the plot, but Lawson is just great as the deranged lighthouse keeper, gurning and grunting his ever more psychotic way towards the film’s conclusion...Basically you can’t go wrong with a hook handed mad lighthouse keeper and a bunch of Nazis." [4]

References

  1. "Tower of Terror (1941)". BFI.
  2. Chibnall & McFarlane p.8
  3. "Movie Review - The Tower of Terror - At the Central". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  4. "Tower of Terror (1941)". The Horror Hothouse.

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