''Deadlock'' is a 1943 British crime film starring
John Slater in a dual role as twin brothers. A
quota quickie
The Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 ('' 17 & 18 Geo. V'') was an act of the United Kingdom Parliament designed to stimulate the declining British film industry. It received Royal Assent on 20 December 1927 and came into force on 1 April 1928.
D ...
, it was listed on the
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery (United Kingdom), National Lot ...
's
BFI 75 Most Wanted
The BFI 75 Most Wanted is a list compiled in 2010 by the British Film Institute of the most sought-after British feature films not held in the BFI National Archive, and classified as "missing, believed lost". The films chosen range from quota qu ...
list of
lost film
A lost film is a feature
Feature may refer to:
Computing
* Feature (CAD), could be a hole, pocket, or notch
* Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob
* Feature (software design) is an intentional distinguishing char ...
s;
as a result, it was rediscovered.
Cast
*John Slater as Fred Bamber / Allan Bamber
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Cecile Chevreau as Eileen
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Molly Hamley-Clifford as Martha
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Hugh Morton as Arkell
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Gordon Edwards
Gordon Edwards is a Canadian scientist and nuclear consultant. Edwards was born in Canada in 1940, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 with a gold medal in Mathematics and Physics and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. At the Unive ...
as Geoffrey
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Mirren Wood as a village girl
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Richard Lindsay as the judge
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George Dewhurst as Slaks
References
External links
BFI 75 Most Wanted entry with extensive notes
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British crime films
British black-and-white films
1943 crime films
1943 films
1940s rediscovered films
Rediscovered British films
1940s British films
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