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7.0/10   106 votes
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Seth Holt (writer)
Donald MacKenzie (novel)
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Release Date:
11 March 1959 (USA) more
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...except into a woman's arms!
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Paul Gregory is sprung from jail in London by his accomplice after getting a stretch as expected for robbing a woman who falls for his charms... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
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Deadman: All Dolled Up And Nowhere To Go
 (From HollywoodNorthReport.com. 14 September 2009, 2:20 AM, PDT)

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Good film from Ealing Studios more (3 total)

Cast

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George Nader ... Paul Gregory

Maggie Smith ... Bridget Howard
Bernard Lee ... Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
Geoffrey Keen ... Inspector Scott
Bessie Love ... Harriet P. Jefferson
Harry H. Corbett ... Sullivan
Andree Melly ... Rosa, cocktail waitress
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Runtime:
89 min
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2.00 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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6 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
Good film from Ealing Studios, 11 September 2009
7/10
Author: blanche-2 from United States

George Nader has "Nowhere to Go" in this 1958 British film that also serves as the debut for a virtually unrecognizable Maggie Smith. Nader plays Paul Gregory, a Canadian con man in London who befriends an old woman (silent screen star Bessie Love) and winds up stealing her valuable coin collection. He's blatant about it, knowing that he will serve a term in prison, but he'll get the money on release. He escapes early and finds that getting his hands on the money isn't going to be easy. His partner becomes greedy, there's an accidental death, and Gregory is forced to go on the run.

Kenneth Tynan and director Seth Holt co-wrote this tight script, and Holt keeps the action going and the tension and frustration building as Gregory runs out of options to get a hold of his money. The production is very good-looking as well.

Handsome George Nader was a Hollywood male starlet who wound up playing Ellery Queen on television, as well as starring in two other series and doing guest appearances before concentrating on a career in German film as kind of a James Coburn type. The rumor has persisted for years that Confidential magazine was ready to publish a story on Rock Hudson's homosexuality and traded that story with Universal Studios for one about Nader instead. This rumor emerged again when Hudson died, and left money to Nader in his will. If true, Universal obviously felt Hudson was going to be more important to them. That became a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it was perhaps correct. The sad thing is that a story like that mattered.

"Nowhere to Go" is well worth seeing.

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