Troubled Waters (1936 film)

Troubled Waters
Directed by	Albert Parker
Written by	Gerard Fairlie
Story by	W. P. Lipscomb Reginald Pound
Produced by	John Findlay
Starring	Alastair Sim Virginia Cherrill James Mason
Cinematography	Roy Kellino
Edited by	Cecil H. Williamson
Production company	Fox-British Pictures
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Company (UK)
Release dates	4 February 1936 (1936-02-04) (London, England)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Troubled Waters is a 1936 British mystery film directed by Albert Parker and starring James Mason, Virginia Cherrill, Alastair Sim, Raymond Lovell and Sam Wilkinson. It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Fox Film.

Plot

A government agent exposes smugglers in a British town with a dwindling spring mineral water business.

Cast

• Alastair Sim as Mac MacTavish
• Virginia Cherrill as June Elkhardt
• James Mason as John Merriman
• Raymond Lovell as Carter
• Bellenden Powell as Dr Garthwaite -
• Sam Wilkinson as Lightning
• Peter Popp as Timothy Golightly
• W.T. Ellwanger as Ezra Elkhardt

Critical reception

TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars, and wrote, "The action is sustained throughout and Mason, as usual, is very good." This was not in response to the film's actual premiere but at least twenty years later, as the first TV Guide was not published until 1953.

External links

Troubled Waters at IMDb