''Forbidden Territory'' is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Gregory Ratoff, Ronald Squire and Binnie Barnes. It was based on the 1933 novel ''

The Forbidden Territory ''The Forbidden Territory'' is a novel written by Dennis Wheatley and published by Hutchinson in 1933. His first published novel, it was an instant success and was translated into a number of languages. Alfred Hitchcock quickly bought the film ...

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Dennis Wheatley Dennis Yeats Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was a British writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series ...

.Shaw p.15 The film, about an Englishman and his son who travel to the Soviet Union to rescue a family member being held in prison, was made at the

Lime Grove Studios Lime Grove Studios was a film, and later television, studio complex in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The complex was built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915. It was situated in Lime Grove, a residential street in Shepherd's Bush, and ...

of Gainsborough Pictures in

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Oscar Werndorff Oscar Friedrich Werndorff (1880–1938) was an Austrian art director. After leaving Germany in the early 1930s he moved to Britain where he worked in the British film industry. He co-directed the 1931 film '' The Bells''.Bergfelder & Cargnel ...

Plot

Cast

* Gregory Ratoff as Alexei Leshki * Ronald Squire as Sir Charles Farringdon * Binnie Barnes as Valerie Petrovna * Tamara Desni as Marie-Louise * Barry MacKay as Michael Farringdon * Anthony Bushell as Rex Farringdon *

Anton Dolin Anton Dolin may refer to: * Anton Dolin (ballet dancer) Sir Anton Dolin (27 July 190425 November 1983) was an English ballet dancer and choreographer. Biography Dolin was born in Slinfold in Sussex as Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey ...

as Jack Straw * Marguerite Allan as Fenya * Boris Ranevsky as Runov

References

Bibliography

* Shaw, Tony. ''British Cinema and the Cold War: The State, Propaganda and Consensus''. I.B.Tauris, 2006.

External links

* 1934 films British thriller drama films Films directed by Phil Rosen Films set in Moscow Films set in Romania Films set in the Soviet Union Films based on British novels Films based on works by Dennis Wheatley Films shot at Lime Grove Studios British black-and-white films 1930s thriller drama films 1934 drama films 1930s English-language films 1930s British films {{1930s-thriller-film-stub