Radio Cab Murder ** (1954, Jimmy Hanley, Lana Morris, Sonia Holm, Jack Allen, Sam Kydd) – Classic Movie Review 13,104

The 1954 British black and white crime drama film Radio Cab Murder stars Jimmy Hanley as an ex-con taxi driver who poses as a crook to catch bank robbers.

Co-writer/ director Vernon Sewell’s 1954 British black and white crime drama film Radio Cab Murder stars Jimmy Hanley as an ex-con taxi driver who goes undercover and poses as a crook to catch bank robbers after he witnesses a bank robbery and tails the criminals.

Hanley is a pleasant star in this time-filling programmer with a complicated but fairly feeble screenplay based on a story by Pat McGrath, some creaky performances and rather unimaginative handling. Lana Morris is also pleasing as Hanley’s fiancée Myra, the cab company’s dispatcher, who helps him out.

The cast are Jimmy Hanley as Fred Martin, Lana Morris as Myra, Sonia Holm as Jean, Jack Allen as Parker, Sam Kydd as Spencer, Pat McGrath as Henry, Michael Mellinger as Tim, Charles Morgan as Maclaren, Bruce Beeby as Inspector Rawlings, Rupert Evans as Williams, Elizabeth Seal as Gwen, Jack Stewart as Gregson, Frank Thornton as Inspector Finch, Trevor Reid as commissioner, Edwin Richfield as Nat, Jane Harwood as Cashier Madge Brindley as Mrs Evans, Joan Carol as scientific officer, Leonard Sharp as first watchman Evans, Ian Wilson as second watchman, and Vernon Greeves as radio operator.

It is shot at Walton Studios and on location around Kensington and Notting Hill in London.

Radio Cab Murder is directed by Vernon Sewell, runs 70 minutes, is made by Insignia Films, is released by Eros Films, is written by Vernon Sewell and Pat McGrath, is shot in black and white by Geoffrey Faithfull, is produced by George Maynard, Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy, is scored by Hubert Clifford, and designed by John Stoll.

Release date: October 1954.

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