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Sensation | |
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Directed by | Brian Desmond Hurst |
Written by | Dudley Leslie Marjorie Deans William Freshman |
Based on | play Murder Gang by Basil Dean & George Munro[1] |
Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
Starring | John Lodge Diana Churchill |
Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
Edited by | James Corbett |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Associated British Picture Corporation (UK) |
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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.[2]
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'."[3]