The Small Voice

The Small Voice (1948)

They could not quiet the small voice

A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.

Date of release
1948-11-27
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Fergus McDonell

Casting

Interesting facts

The Small Voice is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Fergus McDonell and starring Valerie Hobson, James Donald and Howard Keel. The film is part of a group of British film noir produced around this time. It was written by George Barraud, Derek Neame and Julian Orde based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Robert Westerby.

Production

The film was produced by Tony Havelock Allan who later recalled:It got very good notices and was very well received but didn’t make much money. Our director was Fergus McDonell, who was an editor for Carol Reed. Carol had suggested I give him a chance to direct. I nursed him through our film and he obviously had talent but he was so highly strung that he could very easily have had a nervous breakdown.

Havelock-Allen said the film "got very good notices and a lot of help, but it didn’t make any real money. It made a few thousand, but the few thousand goes out of the window very quickly if you’ve got the rent of an office in Hanover Square and three or four employees."

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