Sensation (1936 film)

Sensation
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Directed by	Brian Desmond Hurst
Produced by	Walter C. Mycroft
Written by	Dudley Leslie Marjorie Deans William Freshman
Based on	play Murder Gang by Basil Dean & George Munro
Starring	John Lodge Diana Churchill
Cinematography	Walter J. Harvey
Edited by	James Corbett
Production company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	Associated British Picture Corporation (UK)
Release dates	17 December 1936 (1936-12-17) (London, UK) 18 December 1940 (1940-12-18) (US)
Running time	66 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Sensation is a 1936 British crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring John Lodge, Diana Churchill, Francis Lister and Felix Aylmer. The screenplay concerns a crime reporter who solves a murder case using a piece of evidence he found amongst the victim's possessions.

Cast

• John Lodge as Pat Heston
• Diana Churchill as Masie Turnpit
• Francis Lister as Richard Grainger
• Joan Marion as Mrs Grainger
• Margaret Vyner as Claire Lindsay
• Jerry Verno as Spikey
• Richard Bird as Henry Belcher
• Athene Seyler as Madame Henry
• Dennis Wyndham as Spurge
• Henry Oscar as Superintendent Stainer
• Anthony Holles as Clarke
• Martin Walker as Dimmitt
• Sybil Grove as Mrs Spurge
• Leslie Perrins as Strange
• Felix Aylmer as Lord Bouverie

Reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, faulting the "bad casting, bad story construction, [and] uncertain editing". While praising the acting of Holles, Seyler, and Marion, Greene found that the rest of the cast handicapped the director, and that the story lost its authenticity "in false trails, in an absurd love-story, in humour based on American film, and in the complete unreality of the 'murder gang'."

External links

• Sensation at IMDb