Behind the Headlines (1956)
Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.
- Date of release
- 1956-07-01
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Charles Saunders
Casting
- Paul Carpenter — Paul Banner
- Alfie Bass — Sammy
- Harry Fowler — Alfie
- Magda Miller — Nina Duke
- Arthur Rigby — Hollings
- Trevor Reid — Bunting
- Leonard Williams — Jock Macrae
- Gaylord Cavallaro — Jeff Holly
- Adrienne Corri — Pam Barnes
- Tom Gill — Creloch
- Ewen Solon — Superintendent Faro
- Melissa Stribling — Mary Carrick
Interesting facts
Behind the Headlines is a 1956 'B' British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Paul Carpenter, Adrienne Corri, Hazel Court and Alfie Bass. It was written by Allan MacKinnon based on the 1955 novel Behind the Headlines by Robert Chapman.
Production
Director Charles Saunders previously made One Jump Ahead (1955), which had many similarities to Behind the Headlines. The story of a news reporter investigating a murder, again played by Paul Carpenter, and from a story by Robert Chapman. Saunders specialised in the B movie at the Kenilworth Films Production house which turned out 11 mainly crime thrillers between 1948 and 1956.
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