Mr. Denning Drives North

Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.

Date of release
1951-12-18
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
Director
Anthony Kimmins

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Mr. Denning Drives North

Mr. Denning Drives North is a 1951 British mystery film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring John Mills, Phyllis Calvert and Sam Wanamaker. Alec Coppel wrote the script, adapted from his own 1950 novel of the same title. An aircraft manufacturer accidentally kills his daughter's boyfriend and tries to dispose of the body.

Production

Film rights were bought by Alexander Korda's London Films. John Mills's casting was announced in May 1951. It was Mills's first film in almost two years. At one stage Dane Clark and Patricia Roc were reportedly going to support Mills.

Sam Wanamaker had been living in England since 1949 and was offered the part after writing to his agent from holiday in France asking if any jobs were going.

The film was made at Shepperton Studios. The sets were designed by the art director John Elphick.

Instead of credits appearing on screen at the beginning of the film, a narrator announces the film's title, and then reads out the list of actors' names.

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