| The High Command | |
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| Directed by | Thorold Dickinson |
| Written by | Walter Meade (dialogue) Katherine Strueby (screenplay) Val Valentine (dialogue) |
| Based on | novelThe General Goes Too Far by Lewis Robinson |
| Produced by | Gordon Wellesley |
| Starring | Lionel Atwill Lucie Mannheim |
| Cinematography | Otto Heller |
| Edited by | Sidney Cole |
| Music by | Ernest Irving |
Production company | Fanfare Pictures |
| Distributed by | Associated British Film Distributors (UK) |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The High Command is a 1937 Britishdrama film directed byThorold Dickinson and starringLionel Atwill,Lucie Mannheim andJames Mason.[1]
It was shot atEaling Studios andon location on theGold Coast. The film's sets were designed by theart directorHolmes Paul. It is an adaptation of the 1936 novelThe General Goes Too Far by Lewis Robinson.
This is the tale of an English officer who murders a man inIreland for chivalrous reasons. Years later, he has risen to the rank of Major-General, and is stationed inWest Africa. There, his old crime is discovered, and he allows himself to be murdered rather than involve his daughter in his own disgrace.[2]
The Sunday Times wrote of this film: "Its avoidance of reality and its slowness make it a first-class soporific in this sultry weather."[2] Despite the film's faults, the novelist and authorGraham Greene opined that the directing work by Thorold Dickinson made the film much better than it otherwise would have been.[2] Greene also pointed out that Fanfare was a newly emerging British film company that was constrained by its budget, and that it still managed to use "lyric imagination" to produce memorable scenes well designed to portray the degree of "human crisis" especially at the climax when the General's secret is revealed. Greene described the "glib" review from The Sunday Times as "rather shocking" in light of the production's efforts with their financial limitations.[3]
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