Tread Softly Stranger

Tread Softly Stranger (1958)

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

Date de sortie
1958-08-15
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (15)
Durée
1 h 30 min
Genres
Crime, Drame
Réalisateur
Gordon Parry

Distribution

Anecdotes

Tread Softly Stranger is a 1958 British crime drama film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Diana Dors, George Baker and Terence Morgan. The screenplay was written by George Minter adapted from the stage play Blind Alley (1953) by Jack Popplewell. The film was shot in black-and-white in film noir style, and its setting in a fictional industrial town in northern England mirrors the kitchen sink realism movement coming into vogue in English drama and film at the time.

Production

In May 1957 it was announced the play would be turned into a film called Tread Softly Stranger by Renown Studios.

George Minter said he worked on the script for two years. Producer Denis O'Dell said "I don’t claim to be a creative writer or a wizard at writing marvellous dialogue, but I do claim to know what makes a script tick. And that is important, because you have nothing if your screenplay is badly constructed."

The film was shot at Walton Studios in Walton-on-Thames and on location in Parkgate, Rotherham. Gordon Parry said "This is the kind of off-beat, realistic subject that a director is always looking for."

The eponymous theme tune was sung by Jim Dale.

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