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Penny and the Pownall Case

Penny and the Pownall Case

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Summary

A model helps Scotland Yard to expose a Nazi war criminal who is concealing secret messages in the comic strips she poses for. Mystery, starring Peggy Evans and Christopher Lee

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Terry Staunton

Peggy Evans stars as this routine thriller's titular Penny, a model with aspirations to be an amateur detective, who becomes embroiled in foiling a plot to smuggle fugitive Nazis out of Germany. The death of a British secret agent reveals he was following a lead of suspected clues in the newspaper comic strip for which Penny poses, so she and the strip's artist (Christopher Lee) set out to uncover the truth. Even the slightest tug on a thread unravels the story's weaknesses and inconsistencies, although the film does offer an interesting portrait of an immediately post-war Britain of austerity and food rationing. Evans is a prim and proper heroine, with little to do but look pretty and deliver laughably clichéd dialogue. Ultimately, the film is perhaps most notable for early substantive roles for Lee and a then 16-year-old Diana Dors as Penny's flatmate and secretary to a Scotland Yard inspector.

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Cast

rolenameDet. Insp. Michael CarsonRalph MichaelPenny JustinPeggy EvansJonathan BlairChristopher LeeVon LeicherOlaf PooleyPolicemanFrederick PiperMolly JamesDiana DorsSlim, police car driverPhilip Saville

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Crew

rolenameDirectorSlim Hand

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Theatrical distributor

General Film Dist Ltd

Released on

1948-07-26

Languages

English

Formats

Black and white

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