Passenger to London explained

Passenger to London
Director:	Lawrence Huntington
Producer:	Lawrence Huntington
Starring:	John Warwick Jenny Laird Nigel Barrie
Music:	Charles Cowlrick
Cinematography:	Stanley Grant
Editing:	Peter Tanner
Studio:	Fox British Pictures
Distributor:	Twentieth Century Fox
Runtime:	57 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English

Passenger to London is a 1937 British espionage thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring John Warwick, Jenny Laird and Nigel Barrie. It was shot at Wembley Studios in London as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox.^[1]

Cast

• John Warwick as Frank Drayton
• Jenny Laird as Barbara Lane
• Paul Neville as Vautel
• Ivan Wilmot as Veinberg
• Aubrey Pollock as Sir James Garfield
• Victor Hagen as Carlton
• Nigel Barrie as Sir Donald Frame
• Sybil Brooke as Miss Park
• Dorothy Dewhurst as Manageress

Reception

Picturegoer considered the storyline as "too obvious" and the film being "too slow to be fully effective".^[2]

Bibliography

• Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

Notes and References

1. Chibnall p.296
2. Passenger to London . Pictuegoer . 11 December 1937 . 31 . 342 . 7 . subscription . British Newspaper Archive.