Radio Cab Murder

Radio Cab Murder is a 1954 British crime film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Jimmy Hanley, Lana Morris and Sonia Holm.[1]

Radio Cab Murder
Original Australian poster
Directed byVernon Sewell
Produced byGeorge Maynard
executive (uncredited):
Nat Cohen
Stuart Levy
Written byVernon Sewell
StarringJimmy Hanley
Lana Morris
Sonia Holm
Jack Allen
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Edited byPeter Graham Scott
Production
company
Distributed byEros Films
Release date
October 1954
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

After serving a term in prison for safe-cracking, World War Two veteran and ex-con Fred Martin finds work as a taxi cab driver. He is engaged to be married to Myra, the cab company's dispatcher, a former member of the Women's Royal Naval Service. While picking up a fare, Martin witnesses a bank robbery and tails the criminals, but his cab is wrecked during the chase. The police find a well-known safe-cracker dead of apparent natural causes and ask Martin to go undercover, join the bank-robbery gang, and expose its leader. His boss arranges a sham firing based on his having wrecked his cab, but this causes a revolt among the cabbies, who plan to go on strike to support his reinstatement. The robbery is carried off, but the gang discovers Martin's identity and tries to kill him by locking him in a deep freezer at an ice cream factory. He is saved by his cabby comrades, his boss, and Myra, who ride to the rescue and corner the crooks with the aid of the police.[2]

Cast

Critical reception

  • The Radio Times gave the film two out of five stars.[3]
  • TV Guide also gave two out of five stars, and wrote, "a good cast is all that saves this weakly scripted effort."[2]
  • Sky Movies also rated the film two out of five stars, and noted, "Vernon Sewell was both a competent and prolific director in the genre and brings a professional crispness that many of his contemporaries lacked."[4]

References

  1. "BFI | Film & TV Database | RADIO CAB MURDER (1954)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  2. "Radio Cab Murder Trailer, Reviews and Schedule for Radio Cab Murder | TVGuide.com". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  3. "Radio Cab Murder | Film review and movie reviews". Radio Times. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  4. "Radio Cab Murder - Sky Movies HD". Skymovies.sky.com. 18 November 2006. Retrieved 28 May 2014.

Bibliography

  • Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. The British 'B' Film. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.


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