April 6, 2019

Kent Film Series Includes Double Confession

Lorre fans in the area of Deal – in Kent, England – will be treated to a rare showing of Double Confession (1950) this weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI).

Teaming up with the SKY channel Talking Pictures TV, Kent MOMI will show four classic British films, beginning Friday, March 29, and running until Sunday, April 21, 2019. The full schedule is available on the MOMI website.

Double Confession will be shown Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 5, 6, and 7, 2019, beginning at 6 pm each night.

Admission to the movies is free with the purchase of a ticket to MOMI. Tickets to the museum are £5.50 for adults and £4 for concessions and U16.

The Kent Museum of the Moving Image is located at 41 Stanhope Road, in Deal, Kent. Directions, as well as information about parking and public transportation, are available on the MOMI website.

Long thought lost, Double Confession was for many years on the British Film Institute’s list of “The 75 Most Wanted” movies. But in 2013, Renown Pictures Ltd released the movie to all-regions DVD from a pristine 35mm print.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin recounts the making of Double Confession, including an interview with the film’s director Ken Annakin.

The experience was not a happy one for Peter Lorre, who worked on the movie during a dark time in his personal life and his career.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre may be purchased from Amazon U.S., Amazon Canada, and Amazon U.K, as well as other booksellers.

1 comment:

Jim Bigwood said...

I nebver understood why it was on the BFI Most Wanted List. Doug saw a print early in hgis research and had an audio recording of the sound track that he made at the time and I eventually had a DVD of it which I copied and gave to the BFI on a trip to London. They didn't seem particularly excited to have me hand them a copy of a film that they were theoretically desperate to find.