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Mr. Denning Drives North

Name: Mr. Denning Drives North
Genre: Drama
Released: 1951-12-18
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 6.444

★ 6,4 /10 (9 Votes)

1951 EN 93 min

Overview

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.

Release date

18/12/1951

Votes

Popularity

0.5

Genres

Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

93 min

John Mills

Tom Denning

Phyllis Calvert

Kay Denning

Eileen Moore

Liz Denning

Sam Wanamaker

Chick Eddowes

Herbert Lom

Mados

Raymond Huntley

Wright

Bernard Lee

Inspector Dodds

Russell Waters

Harry Stoper

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Woods

Freda Jackson

Ma Smith

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Trader Faulkner

Ted Smith

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Sheila Shand Gibbs

Matilda

Michael Shepley

Chairman of Court

Ronald Adam

Coroner

John Stuart

Wilson

Hugh Morton

Inspector Snell

David Davies

Chauffeur

Ambrosine Phillpotts

Miss Blade

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Herbert C. Walton

Yardley

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John Stevens

First Patrolman

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Lyn Evans

Mr. Fisher

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John Warren

Mr. Ash

Raymond Francis

Clerk of the Court

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Edward Evans

Second Patrolman

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Madge Brindley

Gypsy (uncredited)

Sam Kydd

(uncredited)

Harry Terry

Gypsy (uncredited)

Peter Sallis

Man (uncredited)

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The Denning Desperation. Mr. Denning Drives North is directed by Anthony Kimmins and adapted to screenplay from his own novel by Alec Coppel. It stars John Mills, Phyliss Calvert, Eileen Moore, Sam Wannamaker and Herbert Lom. Music is by Benjamin Frankel and cinematography by John Wilcox. A splendid collage of murder mystery, noir and thriller - with a slice of Hitchcockian black humour thrown in for good measure, Kimmins' film deserves to be better known. Plot finds Mills as the Mr. Denning of the title, who after accidentally killing what he believes to be his daughter's unscrupulous b…

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