GB
1942
1hr 18mins
Dir: Lawrence Huntingdon
Starring: David Farrar and Patricia Roc
The mastermind behind money stolen from a US bank takes it to London, but is persued by his associates
This crime drama features several quite random railway shots, the first of which shows a train arriving at London Waterloo behind a Southern Railway ‘Lord Nelson’ Class 4-6-0. This is then followed later in the film by a train journey to Holyhead that contains a panning shot of A1 Class 4-6-2 No.2547 Doncaster at night taken from the 1932 Hitchcock thriller Number Seventeen, and three shots taken from the 1936 documentary Night Mail (qv). As Suspected Person was produced in the middle of wartime filming at railway stations was out of the question so the platform scenes use quite obvious sets. The film was not released in the US until 1944.
