Death Goes to School

Death Goes to School is a 1953 British mystery film directed by Stephen Clarkson and starring Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson and Pamela Alan.[1][2] It was made at Merton Park Studios as a second feature.

Death Goes to School
Directed byStephen Clarkson
Written byMaisie Sharman
Stephen Clarkson
Based onnovel Death in Seven Hours by Stratford Davis
Produced byVictor Hanbury
Starring
CinematographyEric Cross
Edited byPeter Seabourne
Music byDe Wolfe
Production
company
Distributed byEros Films (UK)
Release date
  • May 1953 (1953-05) (UK)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Police investigate the death of a tyrannical teacher at a girls school, where any number of people might have killed the dead woman.

Cast
  • Barbara Murray as Miss Shepherd
  • Gordon Jackson as Detective Inspector Campbell
  • Pamela Alan as Miss Helen Cooper
  • Jane Aird as Miss M. Halstead
  • Beatrice Varley as Miss Hopkinson
  • Anne Butchart as Miss Oliphant
  • Imogene Moynihan as Miss Essex
  • Jenine Matto as Miss Stanislaus
  • Sam Kydd as Sergeant Harvey
  • Robert Long as Mr. Lawley
  • Nina Parry as Mary
  • Stanley Rose as Inspector Burgess
  • Enid Stewart as Mrs. White
  • Julie Stewart as Mrs. White
  • Sandra Whipp as Brenda
  • Pauline Winter as Mrs. Lawley

Reception

Kinematograph Weekly said: "Unhurried but reasonably well acted, it holds the interest even if it fails to chill the spine".[3]

Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "As a thriller this is poor, the successive interviewing of the suspects one by one inducing positive tedium. The film, however, has one bright aspect: the amusing caricature of girls' school life it provides."[4]

In British Sound Films David Quinlan describes the film as: "Verbose, monotonous whodunnit" [5]

References
  1. Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. "Death Goes to School (1953) - Stephen Clarkson | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
  3. "Death Goes to School". Kinematograph Weekly. 433 (2391): 7. 23 April 1953.
  4. "Death Goes to School". Monthly Film Bulletin. 20 (228): 89. 1 January 1935.
  5. Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 299. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.
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