Silver Top
1938 British film
- Gerald Elliott
- Dorothy Greenhill
- Evadne Price
- Marie Wright
- Betty Ann Davies
- David Farrar
Production
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George King Productions
Release date
- January 1938 (1938-01)
Running time
Silver Top is a 1938 British crime film directed by George King and starring Marie Wright, Betty Ann Davies, David Farrar and Marjorie Taylor.[1] It was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie.[2]
Synopsis
A gang of criminals decide to swindle an elderly sweet shop owner living in a country village out of her money by producing her "long-lost son" who is really one of their gang. However, once he takes up his disguise he begins to become entranced with the quiet country village and falls in love with the Vicar's daughter. He ends up refusing to help his former criminal associates and reveals his true identity to the villagers.[3]
Cast
- Marie Wright as Mrs Deeping
- Betty Ann Davies as Dushka Vernon
- Marjorie Taylor as Hazel Summers
- David Farrar as Babe
- Brian Buchel as Flash Gerald
- Bryan Herbert as Jem Withers
- Polly Emery as Martha Bains
- Isobel Scaife as Aggie Murbles
References
Bibliography
- Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
- Shafer, Stephen C. British Popular Films, 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. Routledge, 1997.
External links
- Silver Top at IMDb
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Films directed by George King
- Too Many Crooks (1930)
- Leave It to Me (1930)
- Number, Please (1931)
- Deadlock (1931)
- The Professional Guest (1931)
- Midnight (1931)
- Self Made Lady (1932)
- Men of Steel (1932)
- To Brighton with Gladys (1933)
- Mayfair Girl (1933)
- Smithy (1933)
- Enemy of the Police (1933)
- I Adore You (1933)
- The Silver Spoon (1933)
- Too Many Wives (1933)
- Matinee Idol (1933)
- High Finance (1933)
- Her Imaginary Lover (1933)
- Beware of Women (1933)
- Murder at the Inn (1934)
- Oh No Doctor! (1934)
- Guest of Honour (1934)
- Nine Forty-Five (1934)
- The Blue Squadron (1934)
- To Be a Lady (1934)
- The Office Wife (1934)
- Get Your Man (1934)
- Little Stranger (1934)
- Adventure Ltd. (1935)
- Full Circle (1935)
- Windfall (1935)
- The Man Without a Face (1935)
- Gay Old Dog (1935)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
- The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)
- Reasonable Doubt (1936)
- Wanted! (1937)
- Merry Comes to Town (1937)
- Under a Cloud (1937)
- The Ticket of Leave Man (1937)
- Silver Top (1938)
- Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
- John Halifax (1938)
- The Face at the Window (1939)
- Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
- The Chinese Bungalow (1940)
- The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
- Two for Danger (1940)
- George and Margaret (1940)
- Tomorrow We Live (1943)
- Candlelight in Algeria (1944)
- Gaiety George (1946)
- Code of Scotland Yard (1947)
- Forbidden (1949)
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