| Man from Tangier | |
| Director: | Lance Comfort |
| Producer: | W.G. Chalmers |
| Starring: | Robert Hutton Lisa Gastoni Martin Benson Derek Sydney |
| Music: | Wilfred Burns |
| Cinematography: | Geoffrey Faithfull |
| Editing: | Peter Mayhew |
| Studio: | Butcher's Film Service |
| Distributor: | Butcher's Film Service Republic Pictures (US) |
| Runtime: | 67 mins[1] |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Man from Tangier (U.S. title: Thunder over Tangier) is a 1957 British second feature[2] crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni and Martin Benson.[3] It was written by Paddy Manning O'Brine.
A criminal flees from Tangier to London with forged money plates, leading to the gang he works for sending a dangerous woman to pursue him.
Man in Tangier was cut by the British Board of Film Classification to 67 minutes running time, in order to achieve a "U" classification.[1] The film premiered at Odeon Marble Arch in London on 27 January 1957, where it ran as a double bill together with Monkey on My Back (1957).
In April 2011 the film was released on DVD as a double bill together with director Lance Comfort's 1961 film The Breaking Point.[4]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A fairly competent thriller, in which the upholders of the law are considerably more convincing than the crooks, with their alternating foreign and public-school accents. The story is very vaguely constructed; initially there seems very little reason for introducing Tangier; towards the end the action is almost incoherent."[5]