Vernon Sewell

  • Vernon Sewell – Strongroom (1962)

    1961-1970CrimeThrillerUnited KingdomVernon Sewell

    Synopsis:
    During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom while the crooks escape. Later when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up..Read More »

  • Vernon Sewell – Soho Incident AKA Spin a Dark Web (1956)

    1951-1960CrimeFilm NoirUSAVernon Sewell

    A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. He meets the sister of a local mob leader, and she soon draws him into the gang’s activities. When he finds himself being drawn into a murder plot, he finally realizes that his lover is only using him, and determines to escape the gang – but things don’t turn out the way he planned.Read More »

  • Vernon Sewell – Curse of the Crimson Altar AKA The Crimson Cult (1968)

    1961-1970HorrorUnited KingdomVernon Sewell

    When his brother disappears, Robert Manning (Mark Eden) pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host Squire Morley (Christopher Lee, The Oblong Box) is welcoming, Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia (Barbara Steele, Black Sunday), the Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything. Will the village`s renowned expert on witchcraft, Professor John Marsh (Boris Karloff, Black Sabbath), be able to shed light on the wicked going-ons at The Craxted Lodge? Vernon Sewell (Ghost Ship) directs this nightmarish horror classic based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Dream in the Witch House.Read More »

  • Vernon Sewell – Radio Cab Murder (1954)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaUnited KingdomVernon Sewell

    Synopsis by Britmovie:
    This low-budget suspenseful British crime story stars Jimmy Hanley fresh from his success in The Blue Lamp (1950) and is competently directed by Vernon Sewell.

    Fred, a safecracking ex-con, decides to go straight after a spell behind bars and turns to cab driving in London. After an anonymous poison-pen letter arrives at the radio cab office identifying Fred is a jailbird, the police deduce it was sent by a criminal gang hoping to recruit the cabbie for his unique skills. The police persuade Fred’s boss to feign firing him – and sure enough, the unemployed cabbie is allowed to infiltrate a gang preparing to pull off a bank robbery. After successfully pulling off the raid, the gang, discover Fred’s deception and attempt to murder him by locking him in a deep-freeze.Read More »

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