Don Chicago
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Directed byMaclean Rogers
Screenplay byAustin Melford
Based onDon Chicago by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
Produced byLouis H. Jackson
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| Directed by | Maclean Rogers |
| Screenplay by | Austin Melford |
| Based on | Don Chicago by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts |
| Produced by | Louis H. Jackson |
| Starring | Jackie Hunter Eddie Gray Joyce Heron |
| Cinematography | Gerald Gibbs |
| Edited by | Grace Garland |
| Music by | Percival Mackey |
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| Distributed by | Anglo-American Film Corporation (UK) |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Don Chicago is a 1945 British second feature ('B')[1] crime comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Jackie Hunter, Joyce Heron and Claud Allister.[2][3] The screenplay was by Austin Melford based on the 1944 novel of the same title by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts.[4]
Don Chicago, and aspiring but timid gangster, is forced to leave the United States after crossing the wrong people, and on arrival in Britain he is treated as a dangerous criminal. He steals the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, and infiltrates the BBC to make various announcements.
Cast
- Jackie Hunter as Don Chicago
- Eddie Gray as Police Constable Gray
- Joyce Heron as Kitty Mannering
- Claud Allister as Lord Piccadilly
- Amy Veness as Bowie Knife Bella
- Wylie Watson as Peabody
- Don Stannard as Ken Cressing
- Charles Farrell as Don Dooley
- Finlay Currie as Bugs Mulligan
- Cyril Smith as Flash Kelly
- Ellen Pollock as Lady Vanessa
- Moira Lister as telephone operator
- Wally Patch as sergeant
- Inga Andersen