Passenger to London

Passenger to London
Directed by	Lawrence Huntington
Written by	David Evans
Produced by	Lawrence Huntington
Starring	John Warwick Jenny Laird Nigel Barrie
Cinematography	Stanley Grant
Edited by	Peter Tanner
Music by	Charles Cowlrick
Production company	Fox British Pictures
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release date	June 1937 (1937-06)
Running time	57 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Passenger to London is a 1937 British espionage thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring John Warwick, Jenny Laird and Nigel Barrie. It was shot at Wembley Studios in London as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox.^[1]

Cast

• John Warwick as Frank Drayton
• Jenny Laird as Barbara Lane
• Paul Neville as Vautel
• Ivan Wilmot as Veinberg
• Aubrey Pollock as Sir James Garfield
• Victor Hagen as Carlton
• Nigel Barrie as Sir Donald Frame
• Sybil Brooke as Miss Park
• Dorothy Dewhurst as Manageress

Reception

Picturegoer considered the storyline as "too obvious" and the film being "too slow to be fully effective".^[2]

References

1. Chibnall p.296
2. "Passenger to London". Pictuegoer. Vol. 7, no. 342. 11 December 1937. p. 31 – via British Newspaper Archive.

Bibliography

• Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

• Passenger to London at IMDb