Too Dangerous to Live

Too Dangerous to Live is a 1939 British crime film directed by Anthony Hankey and Leslie Norman and starring Sebastian [Shaw (actor)|Sebastian Shaw], Anna Konstam and Reginald Tate. The screenplay was by Leslie Arliss, Connery Chappell and Paul Gangelin based on the novel Crime Unlimited by David Hume.

Premise

A private detective goes undercover by joining a gang of burglars.

Cast

Sebastian Shaw as Jacques Leclerc
Anna Konstam as Lou
Reginald Tate as Collins
Greta Gynt as Marjorie
Ronald Adam as Murbridge / Wills
Edward Lexy as Inspector Cardby
Ian McLean as Saunders
Henry Caine as Selford
George Relph as Manners
Toni Edgar-Bruce as Mrs. Herbert
Torin Thatcher as Burton
William Hartnell as minor role

Reception

Kine Weekly wrote: "The direction is as competent as the acting, no grass is allowed to grow under the story; it works smoothly and excitingly to its spectacular climax. Secret passages mysterious radio stations, aeroplanes, sinister hideouts, death by electrocution, and attempt at a death by arson are but the most easily remembered paraphernalia and phases of the eventful and hair-raising entertainment."