• Source: Dangerous Voyage

      • Dangerous Voyage (U.S. title Terror Ship) is a 1954 British crime thriller B film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring William Lundigan, Naomi Chance and Vincent Ball. It was written by Sewell and Julian Ward and was distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated in the UK, and in the United States by Lippert Pictures.


      Plot


      Author Peter Duncan investigates the circumstances of a damaged yacht and its crew who are taken under tow off the English coast, and the subsequent disappearance of the crew before they reach land. The mast is somehow radioactive but after replacement a geiger counter still picks up a strong reading. When they try to find the old mast on the junk heap, it has disappeared.


      Cast


      William Lundigan as Peter Duncan
      Naomi Chance as Joan Drew
      Vincent Ball as John Drew
      John Warwick as Carter
      Jean Lodge as Vivian Bolton
      Kenneth Henry as Insp. Neal
      Beresford Egan as Hartnell
      Peter Bathurst as Walton
      Richard Stewart as Sgt. French
      Stanley Van Beers as coroner
      Hugh Morton as inquiry chairman
      Armand Guinle as Fourneau
      John Serret as 1st gendarme
      Monti DeLyle as 2nd gendarme
      Guy Standeven as clerk of the court
      Oliver Johnston as Dr. Waverley


      Production


      The film was shot at Merton Park Studios in London, with sets designed by art director George Haslam. Location shooting took place in the English Channel, in Honfleur in France, and Shoreham in Sussex.
      Vernon Sewell later said the film was originally to be about motor car racing and he refused to direct it. As they had already contracted William Lundigan they hired a blacklisted American screenwriter to change the script to be set on Sewell's yacht.


      Reception


      Kine Weekly wrote: "Windswept crime melodrama set mainly on the briny. ... A slap-up climax makes it watertight. Good British 'programmer'".
      The Monthly Film Bulletin said "Average mystery film which makes use of the latest developments in popular science to find a new way of disposing of the villains."
      In British Sound Films David Quinlan says: "Same old British 'B' problem: good ideas but mediocre execution. Laughs in the wrong places."


      References




      External links


      Dangerous Voyage at the British Film Institute
      Dangerous Voyage at IMDb

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