Night Beat

• Director: Harold Huth
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Crime
• Main Cast: Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed, Ronald Howard, Hector Ross, Christine Norden
• Release Year: 1948
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 95 minutes

Plot

The oft-used title Night Beat was applied to the 1948 British melodrama. After serving as commandoes in WW2, Felix (Maxwell Reed) and Andy (Ronald Howard) follow widely divergent paths in peacetime. Andy joins the London police, while Felix falls in with the Black Market. As a result, their friendship and fidelity is sorely tested. The women in the case include Andy's fretting wife Julie (Anne Crawford) and sultry nightclub chanteuse Jackie (Christine Norden). Though its starts out strong, Night Beat metamorphoses into standard melodramatics towards the end. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Anne Crawford - Julie Kendall
• Maxwell Reed - Felix Fenton
• Ronald Howard - Andy Kendall
• Hector Ross - Don Brady
• Christine Norden - Jackie

Fred Groves - Police Constable Kendall; Sidney James - Nixon; Nick Stuart - Rocky; Frederick Leister - Magistrate; Philip Stainton - Sergeant Slack; Michael Hordern; Michael Medwin - Rocky; Victor Weske

Credit

Beatrice Dawson - Costume Designer, Harold Huth - Director, Grace Garland - Editor, Benjamin Frankel - Composer (Music Score), Dr. Hubert Clifford - Musical Direction/Supervision, Vaclav Vich - Cinematographer, Harold Huth - Producer, Guy Morgan - Screenwriter, Roland Pertwee - Screenwriter, Robert Westerby - Screenwriter, T.J. Morrison - Screenwriter

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