48 Hours to Live

1959 film starring Anthony Steel
  • 1959 (1959) (Sweden)
  • December 1961 (1961-12) (U.S.)[1]
Running time
77 minsCountriesSweden
United KingdomLanguageEnglish

48 Hours to Live is a 1959 film starring Anthony Steel.

It was known as Man in the Middle and was shot in Sweden. The movie was little seen outside Sweden.[2]

Premise

A New York reporter, Mike Gibson, is sent to a Swedish island, Gotland, to interview a nuclear scientist. He discovers that foreign agents have kidnapped the scientist and his daughter.

Cast

  • Anthony Steel as Mike Gibson
  • Birger Malmsten as Paul Forsman
  • Lewis Charles as Tony Marino
  • Håkan Westergren as Christenson
  • Ina Anders as Annika
  • Peter Bourne as Charlie Carlson
  • Ingemar Johansson

Production

Filming started June 1959.[citation needed]

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin said "a fair amount of work in Swedish outdoor settings and a repetitive but catchy theme tune provide this ingenious comedy thriller with two tiny virtues. Otherwise the heavy handled rough stuff is funnier than the light relief; both the characterisation and the acting leave much to be desired; and – a novel departure for a film made in Sweden – the pursuit of a spy ring leads through a nudist camp inhabited, it seems, but not a single nudist."[3]

References

  1. ^ 'HAREM NIGHT' A RE-RELEASE Los Angeles Times 14 Dec 1961: C9.
  2. ^ Vagg, Stephen (September 23, 2020). "The Emasculation of Anthony Steel: A Cold Streak Saga". Filmink.
  3. ^ MAN IN THE MIDDLE, The Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 27, Iss. 312, (Jan 1, 1960): 100.

External links

  • 48 Hours to Live at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • 48 Hours to Live at Letterbox DVD


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