23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

Director

• Henry Hathaway

Starring

• Van Johnson
• Vera Miles
• Cecil Parker
• Patricia Laffan
• Maurice Denham

Last On

16:45-18:55 Mon 30th Jan 2017 125m
Film4

Synopsis

Former musical star Van Johnson stars in this cracking London-set CinemaScope thriller, playing a blind playwright who overhears a kidnap plot. Londoners will enjoy seeing director Henry Hathaway's skewwhiff city geography, and there's a fair amount of on-screen fog, too. But, despite the clichés, the suspense is kept taut, the English support cast is faultless and American import Vera Miles is notably sympathetic. This film was one of a series of 20th Century-Fox British-set movies made in the 1950s, which also included hits such as The Man Who Never Was and Sink the Bismarck!.