''His Brother's Keeper'' is a 1940 British

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by

Roy William Neill Roy William Neill (born Roland de Gostrie, 4 September 1887 – 14 December 1946) was an Irish-born American film director best known for producing and directing almost all of the Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series), Sherlock Holmes films starr ...

and starring Clifford Evans,

Tamara Desni Tamara Desni (22 October 19137 February 2008) was a German-born British actress. She appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s. Biography Desni was born in Berlin as Tamara Brodsky,

and Una O'Connor. It was made at

Teddington Studios Teddington Studios was a large British television studio in Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, providing studio facilities for programmes airing on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky One and others. The complex also prov ...

as a

second feature A B movie, or B film, is a type of cheap, low-budget commercial motion picture. Originally, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, this term specifically referred to films meant to be shown as the lesser-known second half of a double feature, s ...

. It had been completed before the outbreak of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

.Chibnall & McFarlane p.3

Plot

A successful sharp shooting act is threatened when a gold-digging

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spiritual (music), spirituals, work songs, field hollers, Ring shout, shouts, cha ...

singer attempts to split them up.

Cast

* Clifford Evans as Jack Cornell *

Tamara Desni Tamara Desni (22 October 19137 February 2008) was a German-born British actress. She appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s. Biography Desni was born in Berlin as Tamara Brodsky,

as Olga * Una O'Connor as Eva *

Peter Glenville Peter Glenville (born Peter Patrick Brabazon Browne; 28 October 19133 June 1996) was an English theatre and film director, and actor. He was a prominent director of stage plays on the West End and Broadway in the 1950s. He was nominated fo ...

as Hicky *

Reginald Purdell Reginald Purdell (4 November 1896 – 22 April 1953) was an English actor and screenwriter who appeared in over 40 films between 1930 and 1951. During the same period, he also contributed to the screenplays of 15 feature films, such as '' The Da ...

as Bunny Reeves * Ronald Frankau as George Hollis * Antoinette Lupino as Pat * Aubrey Dexter as Sylvester * Frederick Burtwell as Harry *

Roddy McDowall Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was a British-American actor whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across over 60 years. Born in London, he began his acting career as a child in his n ...

as Boy

References

Bibliography

* Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. ''The British 'B' Film''. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.

External links

* 1940 films British crime films 1940 crime films Films shot at Teddington Studios Warner Bros. films Films directed by Roy William Neill 1940s English-language films 1940s British films Films scored by Bretton Byrd English-language crime films {{1940s-UK-film-stub