Film
Pool of London
United Kingdom- Age rating
- PG
- Director
- Basil Dearden
- Year
- 1951
A drama of the river underworld
Merchant sailor Dan MacDonald has a lucrative sideline in smuggling black market goods ashore. While docked in London, MacDonald and his best friend, Johnny Lambert, get mixed up with a gang of ruthless jewel thieves, who hire MacDonald to smuggle their loot out of the country. Complications arise when Johnny falls for a charming but pernicious young woman named Pat, and is falsely charged with murder.
Top cast
Bonar Colleano
Dan MacDonald
Susan Shaw
Pat
Renée Asherson
Sally
Earl Cameron
Johnny Lambert
Moira Lister
Maisie
Max Adrian
Charlie Vernon - acrobat / George
Joan Dowling
Pamela, Maisie's sister
James Robertson Justice
Engine Room Officer Trotter
Michael Golden
Customs Officer Andrews
John Longden
Det. Insp. Williams
Alfie Bass
Alf
Christopher Hewett
Mike
Leslie Phillips
Harry
John Adams
Plainclothes Policeman in Squad Car (uncredited)
John Arnatt
Squad Car Officer (uncredited)
Mae Bacon
Ethel the Barmaid (uncredited)
Ian Bannen
Garage attendant (uncredited)
George Benson
George (uncredited)
Directed by
Basil Dearden
Written by
John Eldridge, Jack Whittingham
Produced by
Michael Balcon
