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Man from Tangier

1957 British film by Lance Comfort


Man from Tangier (released in the United States as Thunder over Tangier) is a 1957 British second feature[3] crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni and Martin Benson.[4]

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Plot

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.

Main cast

Releases

Man in Tangier was cut by the British Board of Film Classification to 67 minutes running time, in order to achieve a "U" classification.[2] 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).[1]

In April 2011 the film was released on DVD as a double bill together with director Lance Comfort's 1961 film The Breaking Point.[5]

Critical reception

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."[6]


References

  1. The Times, Thursday 27 January 1957, page 2: First ever appearance of Man from Tangier in the classified ads for "picture theatres", showing at Odeon Marble Arch together with Monkey on My Back - Found in The Times Digital Archive 2014-04-30
  2. Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  3. "Man from Tangier". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  4. "Man from Tangier". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 24 (276): 103. 1 January 1957 via ProQuest.

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  1. "Breaking Point/Man from Tangier". Retrieved 26 December 2023.

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