Condemned to Death explained

Condemned to Death
Director:	Walter Forde
Producer:	Julius Hagen
Music:	Baynham Honri
Cinematography:	Sydney Blythe William Luff
Editing:	Jack Harris
Studio:	Twickenham Film Studios
Distributor:	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Runtime:	75 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English

Condemned to Death is a 1932 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Arthur Wontner, Gillian Lind and Gordon Harker.^[1] It was adapted from the play Jack O'Lantern by James Dawson which was itself based on a 1929 novel by George Goodchild.

Thought to have been lost, "a cut version dubbed in French" was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to locate missing movies.^[2]

Plot

A respected judge leads a double life as a murderer.

Cast

• Arthur Wontner as Sir Charles Wallington
• Gillian Lind as Kate Banting
• Gordon Harker as Sam Knudge
• Cyril Raymond as Jim Wrench
• Jane Welsh as Sonia Wallington
• Norah Howard as Gwen Banting
• Edmund Gwenn as Banting
• Griffith Humphreys as Professor Michaels
• T. Gordon Blythe as Ali
• James Cunningham as Inspector Sweeting
• Gilbert Davis as Doctor Cornell
• Bernard Brunel as Tobias Lantern
• H. St. Barbe West as Sir Rudolph Cantler

References

1. Web site: Condemned to Death . https://web.archive.org/web/20090113210929/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/29849 . dead . 13 January 2009 . British Film Institute.
2. Web site: Lost Then Found . Jo Botting . British Film Institute Screenonline . 22 February 2013.