Double Exposures (A.K.A. Alibi Breaker) is a 1937 British crime film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Basil Langton, Julien Mitchell and Ruby Miller.[1] It was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie.[2]

Plot

Reporter Peter Bradfield (Basil Langton) is fired from his newspaper for failing to deliver an interview with big businessman Hector Rodman (Julien Mitchell). Plucky Bradfield subsequently becomes a photographic equipment salesman, and accidentally takes photos of two men in conversation. Unbeknown to him, these men are the businessmen's lawyer and his secretary, and are plotting to embezzle a fortune in bonds from Rodman, and planning to frame his workshy son George (George Astley) for the crime.

Cast

• Basil Langton as Peter Bradfield
• Julien Mitchell as Hector Rodman
• Ruby Miller as Mrs. Rodman
• Brian Buchel as Geoffrey Cranswick
• Mavis Clair as Jill Rodman
• Fred Withers as Allbutt
• Ivor Barnard as Mather
• George Astley as George Rodman
• Frank Birch as Kempton
• Denis Cowles as Police Inspector

Critical reception

TV Guide called the film a "Negligible British effort";[3] while Nineacre called it a "Cheap but cheerful film, mainly due to Langton who plays a flippant gadabout town that populated these sorts of film."[4]

References

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

• Double Exposures at IMDb

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