Smokescreen (1964)
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.
- Date of release
- 1964-01-02
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery
- Director
- Jim O'Connolly
Casting
- Peter Vaughan — Roper
- John Carson — Trevor Bayliss
- Yvonne Romain — Janet Dexter
- Gerald Flood — Graham Turner
- Glynn Edwards — Inspector Wright
- John Glyn-Jones — Player
- Sam Kydd — Hotel Waiter
- Penny Morrell — Helen - Turner's Secretary
- Deryck Guyler — Station Master
- David Gregory — Pete The Smudger
- Jill Curzon — June
- Barbara Hicks — Miss Breen
Interesting facts
Smokescreen is a 1964 British comedy crime drama film, written and directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Peter Vaughan.
Production
The opening scenes were shot in London, but much of the rest of the film was shot on location in West Sussex and East Sussex, including the Brighton area. The scene featuring Deryck Guyler as the station master was shot at Hellingly railway station, which has been a private residence since the Cuckoo Line ceased operating in 1968.
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