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Noose (released in the United States as The Silk Noose) is a 1948 British crime film, directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, and Derek Farr. It was shot at Teddington Studios with sets designed by the art director Bernard Robinson.
Oct 11, 2015 · Title: The Silk Noose. Summary: Sugiani, a black-market racketeer in London, following World War II, is amassing a vast fortune until Linda Medbury, an American newspaper reporter, learns about him and his operation.
Sep 10, 2012 · Discover the best of the city, first. Richard Llewellyn's adaptation of his own play is something of a transatlantic compromise. Calleia, a vicious Mafia-style gangster nastier than Edward G...
The Silk Noose: Directed by Edmond T. Gréville. With Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, Derek Farr, Stanley Holloway. In post- WW2 Britain, an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancé, and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym attempt to bring black market organized crime to justice.
In its depiction of good guys versus criminals, Noose captures a widely held view in 1948 that black marketeers like Sugiani, who evaded conscription and profited through criminal activity during the war, needed to be brought to account. The Soho church and the choir heard in the film act as a reminder that a moral code has been violated, so it ...
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym.
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym.
