23 Paces to Baker Street
23 Paces to Baker Street

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Famed American playwright Phillip Hannon is in London making revisions to his play currently running in the West End. He is doing this mundane work rather than write a new play since he has retreated from life following the recent and permanent loss of his sight. That retreat from life includes breaking off his engagement to his former secretary, Jean Lennox, who still loves him. One evening at his local pub, he overhears a conversation between a man and a woman that he knows... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in 23 Paces to Baker Street:

Van Johnson
Vera Miles
Cecil Parker
Patricia Laffan
Maurice Denham
Estelle Winwood

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Famed American playwright Phillip Hannon is in London making revisions to his play currently running in the West End. He is doing this mundane work rather than write a new play since he has retreated from life following the recent and permanent loss of his sight. That retreat from life includes breaking off his engagement to his former secretary, Jean Lennox, who still loves him. One evening at his local pub, he overhears a conversation between a man and a woman that he knows involves criminal activity, what he surmises to be the kidnapping plot of a child in exactly one week's time. The local police patronizingly dismiss his report as the overactive imagination of a blind writer. With Jean and his faithful manservant Bob Matthews by his side - the former with some reluctance on Phil's part - Phil goes on a search to uncover the plot using what little pieces of information he has at hand, which includes the man's name being Evans, the woman, who is involved under duress, working as a nanny for a family whose head is formally a lady, that lady having attended a concert that evening, the family living along a certain bus route, and the nanny herself wearing an expensive perfume well beyond her means. His physical disability is an obvious disadvantage. But what may be working to Phil's advantage is his keen sense of dialogue and its subtext in deciphering the conversation, using his other senses which people with sight take for granted, and people, including the criminals, underestimating him because he's blind.

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The Retro Set - 6/10 by Nathanael Hood...perhaps the closest Hathaway ever came to making a Hitchcock film.
User Review - 8/10 by Art SHenry Hathaway directs this thriller starring Van Johnson as a blind playwright who overhears a kidnapping plot and, with his fiancée (Vera Miles) and secretary (Cecil Parker), sets out to trap the villains. This is also a mystery movie, and when the plot is overheard, it will keep you guessing and on the edge-of-your-seat as you and Johnson tries to work out who is going to kidnap who. Hathaway's direction means the pace can be fast but is never slow, while Nigel Blachin's screenplay is very well written and the dramatic moments the film has will keep you on the edge-of-your-seat throughout. Overall, with the direction, performances and script all a positive, it means for one entertaining whodunit.
User Review - 8/10 by Jose Luis MFà cilmente esta podrìa ser una pelìcula de Hitchcock, pero no, està dirigida por Henry Hathaway, suspense en Londres, un escritor de obras de teatro ciego, escucha de casualidad el complot de un asesinato y trata de impedirlo con la ayuda de una ex novia y su mayordomo. Eficaz y entretenida.
User Review - 8/10 by Sharon JI had forgotten how great this film was until I saw it was on TV today. Excellent mystery film with some great moments of peril for the blind protagonist. Wonderful story, expertly executed and some hilarious references to "blind alleys" and "blind spots" in front of the blind man, not to mention some "gollywogs". A reminder as to why classics are classics.
User Review - 8/10 by Paul CColourful and compelling suspense very much in the Hitchcock mould. It's Rear Window with a blind man instead of a cripple. And has the intrigue of the 39 Steps. Great performances too. Deserves a lot more praise.
User Review - 6/10 by Karsh DFine mystery film, almost Hitchcockian in style. A blind american dramatist over hears a kidnapping plot and has to convince his friends and the police or solve it himself......
User Review - 6/10 by Orlok WAn entertaining mystery with some good twists. Good performance by the lead.
User Review - 6/10 by Robert DGreat idea, a blind writer solving a crime. Great sets, probably all interiors shot in California, while some stock footage and one scene on the river Thames. Henry Hathaway was an allrounder as a director, and this proves it.
User Review - 6/10 by Grant SHitchcock-Light. A blind playwright, Phillip Hannon, is sitting in a pub when he overhears a suspicious conversation. The two people in the next booth appear to be plotting a crime. Hannon informs the police but they are convinced his suspicions are merely due to the workings of his dramatical mind. Undeterred, he sets out to work out the mystery himself. However, this puts his own life in danger. Mildly interesting. The main plot has a Hitchcockian feel to it, reinforced by it resembling Rear Window but with a blind man instead of a man unable to walk. (Interestingly, Rear Window was released only two years previously). Unfortunately, that's where any resemblance to an Alfred Hitchcock drama ends. While there is some intrigue, there is little tension, as director Henry Hathaway just lets things go on without upping the pace or creating any real sense of danger. The plot is far from watertight, highlighted by a final twist that, while unforeseen, doesn't entirely make sense. This said, it is intriguing enough to not be a total waste of time.

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