Emergency Call

Emergency Call (1952)

A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.

Date de sortie
1952-05-19
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (7)
Durée
1 h 24 min
Genres
Thriller
Réalisateur
Lewis Gilbert

Distribution

Anecdotes

Emergency Call, released in the US as The Hundred Hour Hunt, is a 1952 British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton and Sid James. It was written by Gilbert and Vernon Harris, and distributed by Butcher's Film Service. The film was a noted success compared to its small budget and helped establish Gilbert as a director. It was remade in 1962 as Emergency.

Production

It was shot at Nettlefold Studios with sets designed by the art director Bernard Robinson.

Both Warner and Steel were loaned out from the Rank Organisation; the two men worked together again with Gilbert on Abert RN (1953) Real life boxer Freddie Mills played a boxer.

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