Crime on the Hill is a 1933 British mystery film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Sally Blane, Nigel Playfair and Lewis Casson.BFI.org The plot was based on a successful play by Jack de Leon and Jack Celestin.Richards p.189 It was made by British International Pictures at Welwyn Studios in autumn 1933.Richards p.188 The film's sets were designed by the art director Duncan Sutherland.
Plot A man tries to clear the name of his uncle who is wrongly convicted of a murdering the squire in a picturesque English village.
Cast Sally Blane as Sylvia Kennett Nigel Playfair as Doctor Moody Lewis Casson as Reverend Michael Gray Anthony Bushell as Tony Fields Phyllis Dare as Claire Winslow Judy Kelly as Alice Green George Merritt as Inspector Wolf Hal Gordon as Sergeant Granger Gus McNaughton as Collins Jimmy Godden as Landlord Hay Petrie as Jevons Kenneth Kove as Tourist Reginald Purdell as Reporter James Knight as Newspaper editor Norma Varden as Editor's secretary
References
Bibliography Richards, Jeffrey (ed.) The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929-1939. I.B. Tauris, 1998.
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