They Made Me a Fugitive

"Gangway for Gangland's Blazing Guns!"

1947 1h 39m EN

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6.6

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★6.6TMDB · 62

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Synopsis

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After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

“Gangway for Gangland's Blazing Guns!”

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Cast

Sally Gray
Sally Connor
Trevor Howard
George Clement 'Clem' Morgan
Griffith Jones
Narcy
Rène Ray
Cora
Mary Merrall
Aggie
Charles Farrell
Curley
Michael Brennan
Jim
Jack McNaughton
Soapy

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Writers: Noel Langley
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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ERA

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79 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, shot by Otto Heller. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Marius-François Gaillard. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Margery Saunders shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Sally Gray and Trevor Howard and Griffith Jones carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Gangway for Gangland's Blazing Guns!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0039895 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 62 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Alberto Cavalcanti directs. Otto Heller behind the camera. Marius-François Gaillard scores. Margery Saunders cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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179 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, shot by Otto Heller. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Marius-François Gaillard. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Margery Saunders shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Sally Gray and Trevor Howard and Griffith Jones carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Gangway for Gangland's Blazing Guns!".
7IMDB entry: tt0039895 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 62 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
9Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Otto Heller
Original score: Marius-François Gaillard
Editing: Margery Saunders
Makeup / hair: Jean Bear
Runtime: 99 min · 1h 39m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

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CinemaSerf2022-07-07
★ 7/10
After WWII, "Clem Morgan" (Trevor Howard) returns to little opportunity in wartorn Britain, so he hooks up with some hoodlums. When one of their robberies goes wrong, his new "friends" frame him for the killing of a policeman and to prison he goes. He escapes, and bent on revenge the film follows his efforts to get back home and to settle the scores. Howard was never the most natural of actors, I always found him just a little too sterile, but he acquits himself well enough here with a couple of decent performances from Griffith Jones as his nemesis "Narcy" (as in Narcissist) and Sally Gray as the conflicted ("Sally") as well as a solid supporting cast with the aptly named heavy Peter Bull, a drunken Maurice Denham with his resentful wife Vida Hope and Ballard Berkeley. This story is tensely directed with plenty of mini-escapades en route to keep it interesting. The fight scenes are a little bit over-staged and the ending is really quite a stretch to the imagination - Howard's skill at weaponising milk bottles borders on the comical, but the rest of it is well paced and a good watch.

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