Death Goes to School

1953 British film by Stephen Clarkson

  • Barbara Murray
  • Gordon Jackson
  • Pamela Alan
CinematographyEric CrossEdited byPeter SeabourneMusic byDe Wolfe
Production
company
Independent Artists
Distributed byEros Films (UK)
Release date
  • May 1953 (1953-05) (UK)
Running time
64 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Death Goes to School is a 1953 British mystery film directed by Stephen Clarkson and starring Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson and Pamela Alan.[1][2] It was made at Merton Park Studios as a second feature.

Plot

Police investigate the death of a tyrannical teacher at a girls school, where any number of people might have killed the dead woman.

Cast

  • Barbara Murray as Miss Shepherd
  • Gordon Jackson as Detective Inspector Campbell
  • Pamela Alan as Miss Helen Cooper
  • Jane Aird as Miss M. Halstead
  • Beatrice Varley as Miss Hopkinson
  • Anne Butchart as Miss Oliphant
  • Imogene Moynihan as Miss Essex
  • Jenine Matto as Miss Stanislaus
  • Sam Kydd as Sergeant Harvey
  • Robert Long as Mr. Lawley
  • Nina Parry as Mary
  • Stanley Rose as Inspector Burgess
  • Enid Stewart as Mrs. White
  • Julie Stewart as Mrs. White
  • Sandra Whipp as Brenda
  • Pauline Winter as Mrs. Lawley

Reception

Kinematograph Weekly said: "Unhurried but reasonably well acted, it holds the interest even if it fails to chill the spine".[3]

Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "As a thriller this is poor, the successive interviewing of the suspects one by one inducing positive tedium. The film, however, has one bright aspect: the amusing caricature of girls' school life it provides."[4]

In British Sound Films David Quinlan describes the film as: "Verbose, monotonous whodunnit"[5]

References

  1. ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ^ "Death Goes to School (1953) - Stephen Clarkson | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
  3. ^ "Death Goes to School". Kinematograph Weekly. 433 (2391): 7. 23 April 1953.
  4. ^ "Death Goes to School". Monthly Film Bulletin. 20 (228): 89. 1 January 1935.
  5. ^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 299. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.

External links

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  • Death Goes to School at ReelStreets


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