Echo of Barbara
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Echo of Barbara | |
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Directed by | Sidney Hayers |
Written by | John Kruse |
Based on | novel Echo of Barbara by Jonathan Burke |
Produced by | Julian Wintle Leslie Parkyn |
Starring | Mervyn Johns Maureen Connell with Paul Stassino |
Cinematography | Michael Reed |
Edited by | Tristam Cones |
Music by | Davide Castrati |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK) |
Running time | 58 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Echo of Barbara is a 1960 British crime film directed by Sidney Hayers, and based on a novel of the same title by Jonathan Burke.[1][2] It concerns Soho stripper Paula, who poses as Barbara, the missing sister of crooked Sam Roscoe, hoping to uncover the whereabouts of stolen money.[3]
Cast
- Mervyn Johns as Sam Roscoe
- Maureen Connell as Paula Brown
- Paul Stassino as Caledonia
- Ronald Hines as Mike Roscoe
- Tom Bell as Ben
- Brian Peck as Ted
- Eddie Leslie as Aide
- Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Roscoe
- John Abineri as Rankin
- Diana Potter as Pam
Critical reception
Allmovie called it "a better-than-usual British programmer, entertaining despite its surplus of unpleasant leading characters."[3]
References
- ^ ECHO OF BARBARA Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 28, Iss. 324, (Jan 1, 1961): 23.
- ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Echo of Barbara (1960) - Sidney Hayers, Arthur Alcott | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
External links
- Echo of Barbara at BFI
- Echo of Barbara at IMDb
- Echo of Barbara at Letterbox DVD
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- 1960 films
- British crime films
- British black-and-white films
- 1960 crime films
- Films set in London
- Films directed by Sidney Hayers
- Films shot at Beaconsfield Studios
- 1960s English-language films
- 1960s British films
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- 1960s British film stubs