Man from Tangier [Thunder over Tangier] (1957, Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni, Martin Benson, Derek Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 13,416

US release poster for Man from Tangier [Thunder over Tangier] (1957).

The 1957 British second feature crime thriller film Man from Tangier [Thunder over Tangier] stars Robert Hutton as a film actor framed for murder by a gang of villains involved with money plates forging. 

‘Invitation to danger… Desire… And death!!!!’

Director Lance Comfort’s best forgotten 1957 British second feature crime thriller film Man from Tangier [Thunder over Tangier] stars Robert Hutton as a film actor framed for murder by a gang of villains who are involved with money plates forging.

The criminal Armstrong (Emerton Court) is trying to escape the gang and flees from Tangier to London with the all-valuable forged money plates, and so the gang boss Voss (Martin Benson) sends alluring but dangerous femme fatale Michele (Lisa Gastoni) to pursue him.

Armstrong accidentally swaps coats in a London barber’s shop with film actor Chuck Collins (Hutton), who later meets Michele (Lisa Gastoni), who then says she will assist him. Voss’s crook partner Heinrich (Leonard Sachs) senses a double-cross.

Despite the ambitious plot, the fairly decent cast and the pacy, B-movie-style handling, unfortunately the feeble script by Paddy Manning O’Brine, desperately low budget production by Butcher’s Film Service, and the dreary star performances by Robert Hutton and Lisa Gastoni kill it more or less stone cold dead.

Release date: 27 June 1957 (UK).

The British Board of Film Classification cut it to 67 minutes for a U certificate. It premiered at Odeon Marble Arch, London, on 27 January 1957 in a double bill with Monkey on My Back.

The cast

The cast are Robert Hutton as Chuck Collins, Lisa Gastoni as Michele, Martin Benson as Voss, Derek Sydney as Darracq, Leonard Sachs as Heinrich, Emerton Court as Armstrong, Richard Shaw as Johnny, Robert Raglan as Inspector Meredith, Harold Berens as Sammy, Jack Allen as Rex, Michael Balfour as Spade Murphy, Frank Forsyth as Sergeant Irons, Reginald Hearne as Walters, Fred Lake as hotel porter, Alex Gallier as Max, Marianne Stone as woman in hotel, Ronnie Clark as Coster, Victor Beaumont, Suzanna Leigh, and Guy Standeven.

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