The High Command
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Director Thorold Dickinson Music director Ernest Irving Language English | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Lewis Robinson , Val Valentine Release date 1938 Screenplay Val Valentine, Katherine Strueby, Walter Meade Cast Lionel Atwill (Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye), Lucie Mannheim (Diana Cloam), Steven Geray (Martin Cloam), James Mason (Capt. Heverell), Leslie Perrins (Maj. Carson), Allan Jeayes (H.E., the Governor)Similar movies Lionel Atwill appears in The High Command and Beggars in Ermine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The High Command is a 1937 British drama film directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim and James Mason.
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Plot
This is the improbable tale of an English officer who murders a man in Ireland for chivalrous reasons. Years later, he has risen to the rank of Major-General, and is stationed in West Africa. There, his old crime is discovered, and he allows himself to be murdered rather than involve his daughter in his own disgrace.
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Reception
The Sunday Times wrote of this film: "Its avoidance of reality and its slowness make it a first-class soporific in this sultry weather." Despite the film's faults, the novelist and author Graham Greene opined that the directing work by Thorold Dickinson made the film much better than it otherwise would have been.
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