''Date with Disaster'' is a 1957 British
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Charles Saunders and starring
Tom Drake,
William Hartnell and
Shirley Eaton.
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/ref> It was made at Southall Studios
Southall Studios was a film studio located in Southall, Middlesex (now west London) which operated between 1924 and 1958.
The studio was constructed on the site of a former aircraft hangar by the silent film director and producer G.B. Samuelson. ...
in London. Location shooting took place around Southall and Chiswick
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. The film's sets were designed by the art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Herbert Smith
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.
Cast
* Tom Drake as Miles
* William Hartnell as Tracey
* Shirley Eaton as Sue
* Maurice Kaufmann as Don
* Michael Golden as Inspector Matthews
* Richard Shaw as Ken
* Charles Brodie as Charlie
* Deidre Mayne as Judy
* Peter Fontaine as Sergeant Brace
* Robert Robinson as Young Man
* John Drake as Constable Wilson
* Robert J. Mooney as Sergeant
* Van Boolen as Night Watchman
References
External links
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1957 films
1957 crime films
Films directed by Charles Saunders
Films shot at Southall Studios
British crime films
1950s English-language films
1950s British films
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