What Price Vengeance (1937)
1937 · Feature film · 56 min · dir. Del Lord
- Crime
- Action
- Adventure
Synopsis
The film was part of the British Quota Law that existed in the 1930's that basically said in order for films produced in the U.S. by U.S. producers and companies to be shown in Great Britain or any of the colonies, a certain number of films shot somewhere in the British Empire, with the majority of the cast and crew British subjects, had to be shown in the U.S.A. This posed no problems for the major studios who either had production facilities in England or working agreements with the major British producers, but Columbia had neither. In order to comply with the British Quota, so Columbia films could be shown in England and its far-flung outposts, Columbia entered into an agreement with Commonwealth Studios, headed by Canadian-producer Kenneth J. Bishop, in Willows Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to finance and shoot films there for distribution through Columbia's film exchanges. Most of these films starred imported Columbia contractees such as Rita Hayworth, Charles Quigley, Rosalind Keith, Charles Starrett and others, but the vast majority of cast and crew was made up of subjects of the Crown. As such, there were a couple of dozen B-features or westerns shot in Canada with the cast filled with names such as Finis Barton, Robert Rideout, Arthur Kerr, Reginald Hincks, Edgar Edwards et al, directed or written by people such as Del Lord (Canadian-born), J. P. McGowan (Australian-born) or Kenneth/Kenne Duncan (Canadian born). There were a couple of Charles Starrett…
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Del Lord
- Writer
- J.P. McGowan
- Studio
- Central Films, Rialto Productions Corporation
- Released
- 1937-05-25
- Running time
- 56 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Lyle Talbot
- poverty row
Cast & crew
Del Lord Director
Lyle Talbot
Wendy Barrie
Marc Lawrence
Eddie Acuff
Lucille Lund
Wally Albright- Robert Rideout
- Reginald Hincks
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Good Cop Goes Bad · bobsluckycat · 2011-06-03
This little Canadian picture, shot in British Columbia with a handful of American "B" players and a largely Canadian cast is O.K., but you've seen it all before as crime dramas go. It's an interesting story penned by famous silents director and "B" actor in silent and sound films, J.P. McGowan just not too original. Lyle Talbot and Eddie Acuff very good in their roles. This has very good picture quality but the sound is very low and you can miss a lot. A relic for buffs only.
