Dangerous Ground

DANGEROUS GROUND is a particularly uninspiring British crime film of the 1930s. I note the term 'quota quickie' is brought out fairly quickly on this site as a term of insult but that's definitely what this movie feels like as it has no material that stands out or indeed hasn't been seen elsewhere. The most interesting part of the production are the opening scenes which make this look like an American gangster film but things soon move to the more typical country pile settings with a rich aristocratic family making up the cast of characters.

Basically, somebody in the house is a master criminal hiding out from the law, and an insurance man is on the case. There's a lot of talk in this one and not much action, and to make things worse it's a very static film in term of camera movement and shots; there's little in the way of variety to break up what quickly becomes tedious. David Lean worked on this film as editor but you wouldn't know it, while main star Malcolm Keen was the father of Geoffrey. DANGEROUS GROUND is a time waster whichever way you look at it.