Emergency Call
1952 | 84m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Lewis Gilbert |
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| Writer: | Vernon Harris, Lewis Gilbert |
| Staring: |
| A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors. | |
| Release Date: | May 19, 1952 |
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| Director: | Lewis Gilbert |
| Writer: | Vernon Harris, Lewis Gilbert |
| Genres: | Thriller |
| Keywords | scotland yard, race against time, blood donation, sick child |
| Production Companies | Nettlefold Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Jack Warner | Inspector Lane |
| Anthony Steel | Dr. Carter |
| Joy Shelton | Laura Bishop |
| Sid James | Danny Marks |
| Earl Cameron | George Robinson |
| Thora Hird | Mrs. Cornelius |
| Freddie Mills | Tim Mahoney |
| John Robinson | Dr. Braithwaite |
| Eric Pohlmann | Flash Harry |
| Sydney Tafler | Brett |
| Geoffrey Hibbert | Jackson |
| Vida Hope | Brenda |
| Henry Hewitt | Mr. Wilberforce |
| Peggy Bryan | Ward Sister |
| Avis Scott | Marie |
| Bruce Seton | Sgt. Bellamy |
| Anna Turner | Mrs. Jackson |
| Nosher Powell | Boy Booth |
| Campbell Singer | Sgt. Phillips |
| Nigel Clarke | Supt. Travers |
| Michael Brennan | Police Constable |
| Anthony Oliver | Police Constable |
| Duncan Lamont | Police Constable |
| Arthur Lovegrove | Gunner Terry |
| Richard Gale | Matthews |
| Dandy Nichols | Barmaid |
| Jennifer Tafler | Penny Bishop |
| Carmen Manley | Mrs. Robinson |
| Michael Ward | Roberto |
| Iris Vandeleur | Mrs. Flint |
| Philip Ray | Captain Wilcox |
| Peter Swanwick | Police Sergeant |
| Graham Stark | Posh Charlie |
| Eric Davies | Chick |
| Pat Hagate | Boxing M.C. |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Vernon Harris | Writer |
| Lewis Gilbert | Writer, Director |
| Wilkie Cooper | Director of Photography |
| Wilfred Burns | Music |
| Bernard Robinson | Art Direction |
| E.S. Laurie | Production Manager |
| Charles Hasse | Editor |
| John O'Gorman | Makeup Artist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Ernest G. Roy | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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It's quite tough to be objective about this - it is a well made feel-good film with a worthy cause and sterling efforts from all concerned as they try to track down a blood donor who can save the life of a desperately ill child. Simultaneously, the police - Jack Warner and Bruce Seton - are on the t ... rail of a dodgy boxing promoter who is trying to manipulate the career of "Tim Mahoney" (former World Light Heavyweight Champ Freddie Mills) and also of some other recalcitrant miscreants. It's got the smallest of budgets, but a surprisingly solid cast of British stalwarts from Dandy Nicholls and Anthony Steel - the well meaning doctor - to Sid James, Thora Hird and Eric Pohlmann and they all combine to make this a perfectly watchable tug at the heart strings mixed in with the usual detective yarn. If you come across it, then you ought to spare it 90 minutes - you'll feel better afterwards.