Dangerous Voyage

Dangerous Voyage is a 1954 British mystery crime film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring William Lundigan, Naomi Chance and Vincent Ball.

Dangerous Voyage
Directed byVernon Sewell
Written byVernon Sewell
Julian Ward
Produced byNat Cohen
Stuart Levy
William H. Williams
StarringWilliam Lundigan
Naomi Chance
Vincent Ball
CinematographyJosef Ambor
Edited byGeoffrey Muller
Music byAllan Gray
Production
company
Merton Park Studios Productions
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
Release date
5 April 1954
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

It was produced as a second feature distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated in the UK,[1] and in the United States by Lippert Pictures as Terror Ship.

Plot

Author Peter Duncan investigates the circumstances of a damaged yacht and its crew who are taken under tow off the English coast, and the subsequent disappearance of the crew before they reach land. The mast is somehow radioactive but after replacement a geiger counter still picks up a strong reading. When they try to find the old mast on the junk heap it has disappeared.

Cast
  • William Lundigan as Peter Duncan
  • Naomi Chance as Joan Drew
  • Vincent Ball as John Drew
  • John Warwick as Carter
  • Jean Lodge as Vivian Bolton
  • Kenneth Henry as Insp. Neal
  • Beresford Egan as Hartnell
  • Peter Bathurst as Walton
  • Richard Stewart as Sgt. French
  • Stanley Van Beers as Coroner
  • Hugh Morton as Inquiry Chairman
  • Armand Guinle as Fourneau
  • John Serret as 1st. Gendarme
  • Monti DeLyle as 2nd. Gendarme
  • Guy Standeven as Clerk of the Court
  • Oliver Johnston as Dr. Waverley

Production

The film was shot at Merton Park Studios in London, with sets designed by art director George Haslam. Location shooting took place in the English Channel, in Honfleur in France, and Shoreham in Sussex.

Vernon Sewell later said the film was originally to be about motor car racing and he refused to direct it. As they had already contracted William Lundigan they hired a blacklisted American screenwriter to change the script to be set on Sewell's yacht.[2]

Reception

Kine Weekly wrote: "Windswept crime melodrama set mainly on the briny. [...] A slap-up climax makes it watertight. Good British "programmer"".[3]

In British Sound Films David Quinlan says: "Same old British 'B' problem: good ideas but mediocre execution. Laughs in the wrong places."[4]

References
  1. Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. Fowler, Roy (8 July 1994). "Vernon Sewell". British Entertainment History Project.
  3. "Dangerous Voyage". Kine Weekly. 44 (238): 16–17. 18 March 1954.
  4. Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 298. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.


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