''The Midas Touch'' is a 1940 British

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directed by David MacDonald and starring Barry K. Barnes,

Judy Kelly Julie Aileen Kelly (1 November 1913 – 22 October 1991), known professionally as Judy Kelly, was an Australian-born British actress. She arrived in Britain in 1932 after winning a competition organised by the Australian British Empire Films, ...

, Frank Cellier and

Bertha Belmore Bertha Belmore (22 December 1882 – 14 December 1953) was an English stage and film actress. Part of the Belmore family of British actors through her marriage to actor Herbert Belmore, she began her career as a child actress in British pantomim ...

. It is an adaptation of the 1938 novel of the same title by

Margaret Kennedy Margaret Davies, Lady Davies (née Kennedy ; 23 April 1896 – 31 July 1967) was an English novelist and playwright. Her most successful work, as a novel and as a play, was '' The Constant Nymph''. She was a productive writer and several of her ...

.Goble p. 256 It was made as a

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Teddington Studios Teddington Studios was a large British television studio in Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, providing studio facilities for programmes airing on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky One and others. The complex also prov ...

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. The film's sets were designed by

Norman G. Arnold Norman G. Arnold (19 September 1892 – 7 December 1963) was a British art director who designed the sets for over a hundred and twenty films. Early life and World War I Arnold studied architecture, interior decoration & design. During the First ...

Cast

* Barry K. Barnes as Evan Jones *

as Lydia Brenton * Frank Cellier as Corris Morgan *

as Mrs Carter-Blake * Eileen Erskine as Rosalie *

Philip Friend Philip Wyndham Friend (20 February 1915 in Horsham, Sussex – 1 September 1987 in Chiddingfold, Surrey) was a British film and television actor. Career Britain Friend went to Bradfield College where he became interested in acting. He began a ...

as David Morgan * Scott Harrold as Harkness *

Iris Hoey Wilhelmina Iris Winifred Hasbach (17 July 1885 – 13 May 1979), known as Iris Hoey, was a British actress in the first half of the twentieth century, both on stage and in movies. Early life Iris Hoey was born in London, daughter of Wilhelm ...

as Ellie Morgan *

Anna Konstam Anna Konstam (22 February 1914 – 21 November 1982) was a British theatre and film actress. She appeared in the comedy '' Love in a Mist'' at St Martin's Theatre in 1941. She also played roles at Stratford in 1942–43, including Desdemona i ...

as Mamie *

Evelyn Roberts Evelyn Roberts (28 August 1886 – 30 November 1962) was an English stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1918 after serving in WW I; and his theatre work included the original Broadway production of R.C. Sherriff's '' Journey's E ...

as Major Arnold

References

Bibliography

* Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. ''The British 'B' Film''. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1940 films 1940s thriller films British thriller films Films shot at Teddington Studios Warner Bros. films Films set in England Films based on British novels British black-and-white films Films produced by Samuel Sax 1940s English-language films 1940s British films Films scored by Bretton Byrd English-language thriller films {{1940s-thriller-film-stub