Tower of Terror (1941 film)
5.4 /10 1 Votes
Duration Language English | 5.2/10 Genre Thriller Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 27 December 1941 Initial release December 27, 1941 (United Kingdom) Cast (Wolfe Kristan), (Anthony Hale), Movita (Marie Durand), (Harbor Master Kleber), (Gruppenfuhrer Rudolf Jurgens)Similar movies A Very Long Engagement , The Last Day , The Light , Half Light , South Solitary , Thunder Rock |
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Tower of Terror is a 1941 British thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Michael Rennie and Movita. It was made at Welwyn Studios with location shooting on Flat Holm off the Welsh coast.
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Plot
Anthony Hale is a British secret agent in Germany who takes a job as assistant to lighthouse keeper Wolfe Kristan; and who plans to make off with some valuable papers when a British boat arrives to pick them up. Marie meanwhile has escaped from a concentration camp and swims to the lighthouse, where she is rescued by the deranged Kristan, who sees in her the image of a wife he killed 16 years earlier and buried on the lighthouse grounds. Can Hale rescue Marie from a similar fate at the lighthouse keepers hands?
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Critical reception
The New York Times reviewer called it a "dire little melodrama...A penny dreadful thriller about a mad lighthouse keeper on the German-occupied coast, it cannot overcome the lacks of a preposterous story preposterously acted or a sound track which gives the impression that every one is speaking with a gag over the mouth. Even Wilfrid Lawson, that excellent actor, gives a ludicrously overwrought portrait of insanity as the keeper...Not good".
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