Sensation (1936 film)

Sensation
Sensation
Directed by	Brian Desmond Hurst
Written by	Dudley Leslie; Marjorie Deans; William Freshman
Based on	play Murder Gang; by Basil Dean; & George Munro
Produced by	Walter C. Mycroft
Starring	John Lodge; Diana Churchill
Cinematography	Walter J. Harvey
Edited by	James Corbett
Production; company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	Associated British Picture Corporation (UK)
Release dates	17 December 1936 (London, UK); 18 December 1940 (US);
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]

Cast

John Lodge as Pat Heston
Diana Churchill as Masie Turnpit
Francis Lister as Richard Grainger
Joan Marion as Mrs Grainger
Margaret Vyner as Claire Lindsay
Jerry Verno as Spikey
Richard Bird as Henry Belcher
Athene Seyler as Madame Henry
Dennis Wyndham as Spurge
Henry Oscar as Superintendent Stainer
Anthony Holles as Clarke
Martin Walker as Dimmitt
Sybil Grove as Mrs Spurge
Leslie Perrins as Strange
Felix Aylmer as Lord Bouverie

Reception

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]

References

^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.
^ "Sensation (1936)". Archived from the original on 13 January 2009.
^ Greene, Graham (5 February 1937). "Sensation/Mazurka". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0192812866.)

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[1] Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.

[2] "Sensation (1936)". Archived from the original on 13 January 2009.

[3] Greene, Graham (5 February 1937). "Sensation/Mazurka". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0192812866.)

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