Five Clues to Fortune
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Five Clues to Fortune is a 1957 British
crime film
directed by Joe Mendoza and starring David Hemmings
, John Rogers and Roberta Paterson. Two children try to prevent an aristocrat's secretary from secret selling the aristocrat's country house. It was sometimes shown as an 8-part serial.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
crime film
Crime film
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...
directed by Joe Mendoza and starring David Hemmings
David Hemmings
David Edward Leslie Hemmings was an English film, theatre and television actor as well as a film and television director and producer....
, John Rogers and Roberta Paterson. Two children try to prevent an aristocrat's secretary from secret selling the aristocrat's country house. It was sometimes shown as an 8-part serial.
Cast
- John Rogers - Michael
- Roberta Paterson - Jill
- Peter Godsell - Mark
- David HemmingsDavid HemmingsDavid Edward Leslie Hemmings was an English film, theatre and television actor as well as a film and television director and producer....
- Ken - Dafydd Havard - Jonas
- Norman MitchellNorman MitchellNorman Mitchell was an English television, stage and film actor.Born in Sheffield, his father was a mining engineer and his mother a concert singer. He attended Carterknowle Grammar School and the University of Sheffield, before appearing in repertory theatre and with the Royal Shakespeare Company...
- Bert - David Cameron - Mr. King
- Peter WelchPeter Welch (actor)Peter Welch was a British actor who appeared in various television programmes including Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Spy Trap, Softly, Softly, Doctor Who, and Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan....
- Mr. Strong - Philippa Hiatt - Mrs. Strong