
Dancing with Crime
Dancing with Crime is a 1947 British film noir film directed by John Paddy Carstairs, starring Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes and Sheila Sim. A man hunts down the killer of his lifelong friend.
Plot
Boyhood friends and later comrades in the Army, Ted Peters and Dave Robinson are back in civvies. Ted becomes a taxi driver and hopes to marry Joy Goodall, a pretty chorus girl. Dave, seeking easy money, joins a criminal gang headed by Mr Gregory, which has its headquarters in a suburban palais-de-danse. Dave is shot by Paul Baker, Gregory's right-hand man, and staggers, fatally wounded, into the back of Ted's taxicab while Ted is away. When Ted returns to find Dave's body in his cab, he resolves to find the murderer. Ted suspects Baker, so Joy becomes a hostess at the gang's nightclub, to do some snooping. They bring about the downfall of the gang.
More details
author | Brock Williams |
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contentLocation | London |
director | John Paddy Carstairs |
editor | Eily Boland |
genre | crime |
keywords | boyhood friend chorus girl civvies criminal gang easy money snoop taxi driver wound |
musicBy | Benjamin Frankel |
producer | James Carter |
productionCompany | Coronet Films |
publisher | Paramount British Pictures |
theme | film noir |