The Hour of 13 | |
Director: | Harold French |
Producer: | Hayes Goetz |
Screenplay: | Leon Gordon Howard Emmett Rogers |
Starring: | Peter Lawford Dawn Addams Roland Culver |
Music: | John Addison |
Cinematography: | Guy Green |
Editing: | Raymond Poulton Robert Watts |
Studio: | MGM-British |
Distributor: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Runtime: | 88 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $873,000[1] |
Gross: | $756,000 |
The Hour of 13 is a 1952 British historical mystery film directed by Harold French and starring Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams and Roland Culver. It was made at Elstree Studios by the British subsidiary of MGM. The film's sets were designed by the German-born art director Alfred Junge. Some location shooting took place around London including Kensington Gardens. The film is a remake of the 1934 thriller The Mystery of Mr. X, based on the novel X v. Rex by Philip MacDonald.[2]
Reminiscent of the Jack The Ripper school with a period setting in gaslit London, but this time the mysterious killer is The Terror who is murdering policemen. Lawford plays the handsome gentleman thief Nicholas Revel who gets himself involved in the murders, and the theft of a valuable emerald. The treatment is seldom serious yet is smartly resolved with a supporting cast of British stalwarts.
According to MGM records the movie earned $344,000 in the US and Canada and $412,000 elsewhere, making a loss to the studio of $424,000.[1]