Van Johnson

Vera Miles

Cecil Parker

Patricia Laffan

Maurice Denham

Estelle Winwood

Liam Redmond

Isobel Elsom

Martin Benson

Natalie Norwick

Terence de Marney

Leigh Harline

Nigel Balchin

Henry Ephron

Philip MacDonald

Henry Hathaway

James B. Clark

Milton Krasner

Lionel Newman

Ray Kellogg

Maurice De Packh

Leonard Doss

Bernard Freericks

Ben Nye

Helen Turpin

Harry M. Leonard

Charles LeMaire

Walter M. Scott

Maurice Ransford

Fay Babcock

Lyle R. Wheeler

Edmond F. Bernoudy

Travilla

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

23 Paces to Baker Street

20th Century Fox

Odeon Entertainment

United States of America

English

Français

A truly pleasant surprise. 
 
Philip Hannon is a blind playwright residing in London, during one of his R&R moments at the local public house, he overhears part of a conversation that suggests the vile kidnapping of a child. Getting the police force to take him seriously proves hard to achieve, so with the help of his trusty butler and his ex fiancée, Jean Lennox, he hopes to avert a dastardly crime. 

Well well well, sometimes you can tune into a film not expecting much more than a B movie rush, yet just occasionally you get submarined and get a mysterious treat that deserves far better support than it actually gets. I have been delighted to log on to this films page and see that others have been entertained by this picture as much as myself. This is not ground breaking or even remotely original, in fact it does play out as some sort of cheap knock off idea that Hitchcock turned down in his sleep, but you know what? Sometimes a film can be great just for having an honest will to entertain the viewers with suspense and mystery being its main fortitudes. 

Henry Hathaway directs and it's just another film to prove that as up and down as his career was, he was never afraid to tackle different genres, here, with the London location totally interesting, he manages to knit it all together with impressive results. Van Johnson has his critics, and it would be foolish of me to not concur that at times he has been wooden, but here as the blind Phillip Hannon, he shows that if given good enough roles he was more than able to rise to the challenge. Not one to revisit often for sure, but seriously recommended to those who like the genre and are stuck for a good film to watch. 7/10

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