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Emergency Call is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Lewis Gilbert released in USA on 3 june 1953 with Anthony Steel
Emergency Call (1952)
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Add to a movie listEmergency Call is a British film released in 1952 by Nettlefold Films. The film was directed by Lewis Gilbert and stars Jack Warner in a familiar role playing a policeman, Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton and Sid James as a dubious boxing promoter.
The film was remade in 1962 as Emergency starring Glyn Houston.
Synopsis
The film centres around a race against the clock to locate three blood donors each able to donate one pint of a rare type of blood to save the life of a young girl suffering from leukaemia. The doctor in charge of treating the girl enlists the assistance of police officer Inspector Lane in order to assist in the search for suitable donors. The three donors are each from very different backgrounds, a white boxer, a black sailor, and finally a murderer who has been on the run from the police for a number of years. The boxer's donation is fairly straightforward, having only to avoid his manager, the sailor's donation is more complicated, following a war-time incident where a dying Nazi soldier refused to accept his offer of a donation which he attributes to racism, he initially refuses to donate, until it is explained to him that the Nazi officer refused his donation for reasons that can be attributed to the Nazi's Master race ideology.Actors
Anthony Steel
(Dr. Carter)
Joy Shelton
(Laura Bishop)
Jack Warner
(Inspector Lane)
Sid James
(Danny Marks)
Earl Cameron
(George Robinson)
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