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, 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."