Tower of Terror

1941
1h 2m

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A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick t... Read allA British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.

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Wilfrid Lawson

Wolfe Kristan

Movita

Marie Durand

Michael Rennie

Anthony Hale

Morland Graham

Herr Kleber

George Woodbridge

Rudolf Jurgens

Edward Sinclair

Fletcher

Richard George

Captain Borkmann

Charles Rolfe

Albers

John Longden

Commandant

H Victor Weske

Peters
(as H. Victor Weske)

Bob Cameron

Sergeant
(uncredited)

Eric Clavering

Riemers
(uncredited)

Davina Craig

Woman Knitting at Florists
(uncredited)

Noel Dainton

Rita Grant

Barmaid
(uncredited)

Olive Sloane

Florist
(uncredited)

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Trivia
This is one of about three dozen British films picked up by CBS in 1949 for USA television presentation; its initial telecast in New York City took place Friday 24 June 1949 on WCBS (Channel 2). It first aired In Salt Lake City Thursday 7 July 1949 on KSL (Channel 5), in Cincinnati Tuesday 30 August 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7), in Los Angeles Monday 17 October 1949 on KLAC (Channel 13), and in Boston Sunday 15 January 1950 on WNAC (Channel 7). Although this title had been shown theatrically in the USA in 1942 in an edited format, released by Monogram Pictures, these telecasts were its USA premiere in its complete, original version.

Crazy credits
Opening credits prologue: Three miles off the German Coast- WESTERRODE LIGHTHOUSE- lonely outpost of the North Sea-

Connections
Featured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: Tower of Terror (1969)

Soundtracks
German Folk Songs
(uncredited)
Traditional
Arranged by Charles Williams

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5/10

Dark Happenings In The Lighthouse

In the days when this was made there were no thoughts of the days when this film would be shown on TV.As a result some of the scenes ,shot in almost pitch darkness cannot be viewed.Even when i turned the room lights off i couldn't see what was happening.Lawson plays an insane lighthouse keeper!Nothing like typecasting is there.He has a hook instead of a right hand.As the film progresses as he becomes as mad as a march hare.Michael Rennie opposite him gives a good impression of an oak tree.Rennie is a British agent trying to escape from Germany.Lawson believes that Movita is the reincarnation of his late wife who is buried at the bottom of the lighthouse/The plot is silly but watching Lawson go mad is always an enjoyable experience.watch out for the lorry being driven on the left hand side of the road in wartime Germany.