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The Man from Chicago

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The Man from Chicago
Directed byWalter Summers
Written byWalter C. Mycroft
Walter Summers
Based onSpeed by Reginald Berkeley
Produced byJohn Maxwell
StarringBernard Nedell
Dodo Watts
Joyce Kennedy
CinematographyWalter J. Harvey
James Wilson
Edited byLeslie Norman
Production
company
Distributed byWardour Films
Release date
  • 22 October 1930 (1930-10-22)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Man from Chicago is a 1930 British crime film directed by Walter Summers and starring Bernard Nedell, Dodo Watts, Joyce Kennedy and Austin Trevor.[1] It was produced at Elstree Studios by British International Pictures.[2]

Synopsis

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The screenplay concerns an American gangster who moves to Britain and begins to take on the British criminal underworld.[3]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "The Man from Chicago (1930) - Walter Summers - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  2. ^ Wood p.69
  3. ^ "The Man from Chicago (1930)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 10 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

Bibliography

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  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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