Vengeance Is Mine (1949 film)

Vengeance Is Mine is a 1949 British second feature^[1] crime drama film directed by Alan Cullimore and starring Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth and Richard Goolden.^[2]

Vengeance Is Mine
Directed by	Alan Cullimore
Written by	Alan Cullimore
Produced by	Ben Arbeid
Starring	Valentine Dyall Anne Firth Richard Goolden
Cinematography	James Wilson
Edited by	Gerald Landau
Music by	Ken Thorne
Production company	Cullimore-Arbeid Productions
Distributed by	Eros Films
Release date	July 1949 (1949-07)
Running time	59 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

Charles Heywood is a wrongly imprisoned businessman who is told by his doctors that he is dying. He constructs an elaborate plan to hire a hitman to kill him and then frame his former partner, who put him behind bars.

Cast

• Valentine Dyall as Charles Heywood
• Anne Firth as Linda Farrell
• Richard Goolden as Sammy Parsons
• Sam Kydd as Stacy
• Ethel Coleridge as Mrs Briggs
• Patsy Drake as Patsy
• Alexander Wright as the doctor
• Russell Westwood as Cass
• Manville Tarrant as man
• Alex Graham as barman
• John Hart as barman
• Arthur Brander as Richard Kemp
• Roland Caswell as Police Sargeant
• Michael Bird as policeman
• Bob Connor as garage man
• Betty Taylor as the little girl

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "This absurd story is not helped by the lugubrious playing of Valentine Dyall as Charles; overstressing of the comic relief and third-rate acting destroy any remaining likelihood of reality."^[3]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "poor", writing: "Absurd thriller: even the cast don't seem enthusiastic."^[4]