Film · 1948

To the Public Danger

Name: To the Public Danger
Director: Terence Fisher
Genre: Drama
Released: 1948-09-01

43 min · Directed by Terence Fisher · NR

Drama

6.210
ratings

Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.

Cast

Dermot Walsh

Captain Cole

Susan Shaw

Nancy Bedford

Barry Letts

Fred Lane

Sam Kydd

Police Driver

Patricia Hayes

Postmistress

Roy Plomley

Reggie

Betty Ann Davies

Barmaid

S

Sydney Bromley

Bar patron

J

John Lorrell

Police Sergeant

Frederick Piper

Labourer

P

Patience Rentoul

Labourer's Wife

C

Cliff Weir

Pub Landlord

Arthur Mullard

Man Standing Near Bar (uncredited)

Barbara Murray

(uncredited)

Philip Saville

Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)

Constance Smith

Girl in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)

Crew

Director: Terence Fisher
Producer: John Croydon
Writer: Arthur Reid, T. J. Morrison
Editor: Graeme Hamilton
Cinematography: Roy Fogwell, Harry Waxman
Production Design: Kenneth Sharp
Art Direction: Don Russell
Composer: Doreen Carwithen
Costume: Violet Beaumont

Details

Studios: Production Facilities, Highbury Productions, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Countries: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Certification: NR
Release: September 1, 1948

Themes

pub

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