A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Woods
- (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
Ambrosine Phillpotts
- Miss Blade
- (as Ambrosine Phillpots)
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- TriviaIn the crash scene of the Miles Hawk, the impact is not shown, only the aftermath of burning wreckage. The wreckage was a movie prop, the real aircraft was on the civil register for at least another four years under the ownership of FG Miles Ltd. There are unconfirmed reports that it crashed at Hurstpierpoint in 1955 with the pilot being fatally injured.
- GoofsWhen Denning visits Mados in his flat, after knocking him down he goes to the door with his hat in his hand, then he looks back and sees Mados lying with his head in the fireplace. Going to check on him, Denning throws his hat onto a chair. Discovering Mados is dead, he goes to a phone, picks up the receiver, sees a photograph of his daughter, and puts the phone down. As he sits on a settee his hat is in his hand.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits are spoken, with no captions, giving just the film's title, the two main stars and brief supporting cast. The full credits are shown at the end.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Four Feathers (1939)
- SoundtracksI Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
(uncredited)
Written by John Glover Kind
Played on a record player by the mortuary attendant and heard as a theme over the end credits
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To the North
Don't be taken in by the nondescript title, behind it lies a highly offbeat drama adapted from his own novel by the man who collaborated on the screenplay of 'Vertigo'.
When as a teenager I first read the plot précis in Gifford's 'Catalogue of British Films' I watched it wondering if he was kidding. He wasn't, and straight from the spoken credits, immediately followed by a bizarre dream sequence inhabited by people from his waking life we were plunged into a story surprisingly similar to Chabrol's 'La Femme Infidele', which had a similarly perverse but satisfying outcome with the hero, his wife and daughter bonded by the secret they now share.
When as a teenager I first read the plot précis in Gifford's 'Catalogue of British Films' I watched it wondering if he was kidding. He wasn't, and straight from the spoken credits, immediately followed by a bizarre dream sequence inhabited by people from his waking life we were plunged into a story surprisingly similar to Chabrol's 'La Femme Infidele', which had a similarly perverse but satisfying outcome with the hero, his wife and daughter bonded by the secret they now share.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Der Täter fährt nach Norden
- Filming locations
- Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK(Studio, produced at)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Mr. Denning Drives North (1951) officially released in India in English?
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