Feet of Clay (1960 film) explained

Feet of Clay
Director:Frank Marshall
Producer:Edward J. Danziger
Harry Lee Danziger
Starring:Vincent Ball
Wendy Williams
Music:Bill Le Sage
Cinematography:James Wilson
Editing:Desmond Saunders
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English

Feet of Clay is a 1960 British crime film directed by Frank Marshall and starring Vincent Ball, Wendy Williams and Hilda Fenemore.[1] [2] It was written by Mark Grantham and produced by The Danzigers.

Plot

A newly barred lawyer represents a confessed murderer of a beloved probation officer, but all is not as it seems.

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Drearily predictable mystery film, made with undisguised poverty of means and invention poverty."[3]

The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane describe Feet of Clay as "oddly compelling", "set in a world of prison, drab night streets and stuffy private hotels". At the ending, "once the final flurry of fisticuffs is over, the young lovers embrace, but the acrid atmosphere of the film still hovers over their union".[4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Feet of Clay . 20 July 2024 . British Film Institute Collections Search.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090114182758/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/205692 BFI.org
  3. 1 January 1961 . Feet of Clay . . 28 . 324 . 23 . ProQuest.
  4. Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, The British 'B' Film, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, p. 95.