Noose (released in the United States as The Silk Noose) is a 1948 British crime film, directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, and Derek Farr.[3]

Noose
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Directed byEdmond T. Gréville
Written byRichard Llewellyn (play and screenplay)
Produced byEdward Dryhurst
StarringCarole Landis
Derek Farr
Joseph Calleia
Stanley Holloway
Nigel Patrick
CinematographyHone Glendining
Edited byDavid Newhouse
Music byCharles Williams
Production
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Distributed byPathé Pictures
Release date
  • 28 September 1948 (1948-09-28)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£136,500[1]
Box office£163,159 (UK)[2]

It was shot at Teddington Studios with sets designed by the art director Bernard Robinson.

Plot

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Set in the then contemporary post-war London, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancé and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. The normally gentlemanly and urbane Nigel Patrick is cast as a cockney spiv.

The gangs hang around Bason's Gymnasium and Sugiani's nightclub, The Blue Moon. Sugiani has worked his way up from the gutter since arriving in Britain from Italy.

Cast

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Background

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Noose was written by Richard Llewellyn, adapted from his own stage play of the same title. The film has been included as part of the cycle of spiv films produced between 1945 and 1950 in Britain.[3]

Reception

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Trade papers called the film a "notable box office attraction" in British cinemas in 1948.[4] As of 1 April 1950 the film earned distributor's gross receipts of £119,229 in the UK of which £74,918 went to the producer.[1]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 355.
  2. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p487
  3. ^ a b Noose at BFI Screenonline
  4. ^ Robert Murphy, Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 2003 p211
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