Uneasy Terms

Uneasy Terms (1948)

Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?

Date of release
1948-07-06
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Vernon Sewell

Casting

Interesting facts

Uneasy Terms is a 1948 British crime thriller film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Michael Rennie, Moira Lister and Faith Brook. It was written by Peter Cheyney based on his 1946 novel of the same title.

Production

Cheyney was a best selling author at the time. Vernon Sewell wanted to make a film of Cheyney's Dark Duet but was assigned Uneasy Terms instead, the first in the Slim Callahan novels.

Sewell said Cheyney "had complete charge of casting and costumes, and script of course. He had choice of the world's stars." According to Sewell Cheyney insisted on Michael Rennie who the director thought "wasn't right for it". Swell also said that Cheyney also did not write the script. "I'm left on the, sometimes on the set with no script at all! Michael Rennie and I had to sit down and write the very next day's work! The film was pretty awful."

The movie was meant to be the first in a series.

Filming took place in November–December 1947. There were two units to shoot exteriors, one at Maida Vale another under Bob Asher filming on Northolt and Heathrow Airports.

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