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Portrait of Alison. Portrait of Alison (U.S. title: Postmark for Danger[2], also known as Alison[3]) is a 1956 British crime film directed by Guy Green and starring Terry Moore, Robert Beatty and William Sylvester. [4] It was written by Green and Ken Hughes based on the BBC television series Portrait of Alison which aired the same year. [5][6]
Portrait of Alison is a 1956 film based on Francis Durbridge's tv serial of the previous year. In the US, the film was known as Postmark for Danger. The story was written at a time when Durbridge was at the peak of his powers, and of his fame, and the plot includes a host of the devices that one associates with Durbridge - above all, the seemingly commonplace, yet at the same time inexplicable ...
Apr 24, 2015 · Portrait of Alison, which is based on the story by Francis Durbridge, is quite the Hitchcockian tale, featuring double crosses, mistaken identity and a pretty woman in trouble, rescued by a rather reluctant hero. It’s all fairly routine in that sense, but the McGuffin here is a postcard apparently sent by the deceased brother to Tim, which then goes missing, but might be the piece of the ...
Francis Durbridge. 1.00. 1 rating1 review. Greg Forrester painted Alison's portrait from two photographs and a green evening dress draped over a headless dummy. The dress and photographs had been brought to him by Norman Briggs who said that he was Alison's father. he wanted the painting and was prepared to pay for it. For Alison was dead.
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Portrait of Alison. Tim Forester (Patrick Barr) is a successful and well-known portrait painter. His younger brother is killed in a car crash in Italy on the Amalfi-Positano road, and a girl who was in the car at the time is also reported killed. Forester is commissioned to paint a portrait of the dead girl by her father, using photographs and ...
The film was based on a TV series, Portrait of Alison. Film rights were bought by Tony Owen, the husband of Donna Reed who set up a film making operation in England. Ken Hughes co wrote the script. They borrowed Terry Moore from 20th Century Fox to star. Filming began in April 1955. In May 1955 RKO agreed to distribute in the US.
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The Third Summer of Scam. As has been noted on a few other reviews of Portrait of Alison, Guy Green's crime mystery is unnecessary convoluted, especially for a film that actually has a pretty good story at its base. But for some reason, the main story doesn't appear to provide nearly enough entertainment for Green and he ends up wandering down ...
