Change Partners (film)

Change Partners
Directed byRobert Lynn
Written byDonal Giltinan
Produced byJack Greenwood
StarringAnthony Dawson
Zena Walker
Kenneth Cope
CinematographyJames Wilson
Edited byDerek Holding
Music byBernard Ebbinghouse
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
Release date
  • 1965 (1965)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Change Partners is a 1965 British crime drama directed by Robert Lynn and starring Anthony Dawson, Zena Walker and Kenneth Cope.[1] It was made at Merton Park Studios originally as a Warner-Pathé release, prior to being included as a part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries.[2]

Plot

Ben Arkwright and (Cedric) Ricky Gallen are partners in the firm of Arkwright and Gallen; however, Ricky is having an affair with Ben's wife, Anna. Anna talks Ricky into killing her alcoholic husband, but things do not go according to plan.

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Zena Walker is no Bette Davis, but then director Robert Lynn is no William Wyler. None the less, she puts up an intelligent display of growing malevolence in this absurdly compelling, up-dated Warners-type melodrama, and is virtually the film's only raison d'étre. Actors like Basil Henson and Anthony Dawson haven't the resource to subdue the stilted, stereotyped dialogue, and the direction only rises above the mediocre in two chillingly staged murders, and one or two nicely composed shots of Zena Walker machinating."[3]

References

  1. ^ "Change Partners". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  2. ^ Change Partners (1965) - British Board of Film Classification
  3. ^ "Change Partners". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 33 (384): 58. 1 January 1966 – via ProQuest.


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