23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 4500 kbps | 3.9Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 320 Kbps, #2 Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 320 Kbps
01:43:00 | USA | Mystery, Thriller
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 4500 kbps | 3.9Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 320 Kbps, #2 Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 320 Kbps
01:43:00 | USA | Mystery, Thriller
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancee, attempt to track down the crooks.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood, Liam Redmond, Isobel Elsom, Martin Benson, Natalie Norwick, Terence de Marney, Robin Alalouf, Ashley Cowan, Arthur Gomez, A. Cameron Grant, Fred Griffiths, Walter Horsbrugh, Janice Kane, Charles Keane, Lucie Lancaster, Howard H. Lang, Queenie Leonard, Phyllis Montefiore, Robert Raglan, Maggie Rennie, Stuart Saunders, Reginald Sheffield, Yorke Sherwood, Leslie Sketchley, Charles Stanley
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Famed American playwright Phillip Hannon is in London making revisions to his play currently running in the West End. He is doing this mundane work rather than write a new play since he has retreated from life following the recent and permanent loss of his sight. That retreat from life includes breaking off his engagement to his former secretary, Jean Lennox, who still loves him. One evening at his local pub, he overhears a conversation between a man and a woman that he knows involves criminal activity, what he surmises to be the kidnapping plot of a child in exactly one week's time. The local police patronizingly dismiss his report as the overactive imagination of a blind writer. With Jean and his faithful manservant Bob Matthews by his side - the former with some reluctance on Phil's part - Phil goes on a search to uncover the plot using what little pieces of information he has at hand, which includes the man's name being Evans, the woman, who is involved under duress, working as a nanny for a family whose head is formally a lady, that lady having attended a concert that evening, the family living along a certain bus route, and the nanny herself wearing an expensive perfume well beyond her means. His physical disability is an obvious disadvantage. But what may be working to Phil's advantage is his keen sense of dialogue and its subtext in deciphering the conversation, using his other senses which people with sight take for granted, and people, including the criminals, underestimating him because he's blind.
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23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
