Hideout in the Alps

Original title: Dusty Ermine

1936
1h 15m

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A former forger gets entangled in a counterfeiting scheme after his nephew unwittingly assists criminals. Caught between the gang and Scotland Yard, he races to the Swiss Alps to resolve the... Read allA former forger gets entangled in a counterfeiting scheme after his nephew unwittingly assists criminals. Caught between the gang and Scotland Yard, he races to the Swiss Alps to resolve the situation.A former forger gets entangled in a counterfeiting scheme after his nephew unwittingly assists criminals. Caught between the gang and Scotland Yard, he races to the Swiss Alps to resolve the situation.

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This movie is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald on April 4, 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost completely curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. Its earliest documented telecast now stands at Saturday, December 30, 1944 on New York City, New York's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1). This would have been the edited U.S version, released in the U.S. in 1937 by Grand National.

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Asst.Commissioner: I have got a photograph here that will probably interest you. Yes, a startling resemblance, isn't it? Law-abiding British subject number 718, late of Holloway.
Asst.Commissioner: Well, officer. If, as you say, the banknote you're holding is really forged, naturally I, as a law-abiding British subject, would wish to do all in my power to bring the culprits to justice. Of course, my motives are purely unselfish, but I take it the police would show some reasonable appreciation of my service?
Miss Butterby: Well of course I can't promise anything. That's up to the judge. But I Think if you're wise, you'll talk.

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Music by H.E. Henner (i.e. W.L. Trytel)

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Dusty Ermine review

A sort-of-young Margaret Rutherford shows her comic potential in this early appearance as a member of a shady counterfeiting ring in this entertaining if slightly muddled comedy-thriller. Ronald Squire is a reformed forger who discovers that his talented nephew has been drawn into the same racket by a gang operating out of a sports hotel in the Swiss Alps and travels there to sort things out. He's tailed by dashing, Germanic-looking Scotland Yard cop Anthony Bushell, who wastes no time wooing Squire's niece. The Alps provide an unusual location for a British movie from the '30s and there's a lengthy but decent climactic chase sequence down the side of a mountain, but the film suffers when Squire is off-screen (which he is for a lengthy spell).