The High Command (1937)
With a plot that twists like a plumber's snake, this is more a story of family secrets than anything else, in which the British commander of a West African garrison has to prevent the exposure of an ugly scandal involving his daughter. The story was based on a novel by Lewis Robinson entitled The General Goes Too Far. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, (more)
- Director(s):
- Thorold Dickinson
Synopsis of The High Command
With a plot that twists like a plumber's snake, this is more a story of family secrets than anything else, in which the British commander of a West African garrison has to prevent the exposure of an ugly scandal involving his daughter. The story was based on a novel by Lewis Robinson entitled The General Goes Too Far. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi
Complete Cast of The High Command
- Lionel Atwill - Maj.-Gen. Sir John Sangye
- Steven Geray - Martin Cloam
- Kathleen Gibson - Belinda
- Philip Strange - Maj. R. Challoner
- Skelton Knaggs
- Aribert Waescher - Advokat Menecke
- Michael Lambert - Lorne
- Eduard von Winterstein - Der Major
- Wally Patch - Crawford
- Archibald Batty
- Henry Hewitt - Defense
- Lucie Mannheim - Diane Cloam
- James Mason - Captain Heverell
- Tom Gill - Daunt
- Frank Atkinson
- Leslie Perrins - Maj. Carson
- Heli Finkenzeller - Kaethe
- Drusilla Wills
- Siegfried Schürenberg - Lord Beckhurst
- Allan Jeayes - H.E., the Governor
- Lil Dagover - Madame Martin
- Karl Ludwig Diehl - Rittmeister von Droste
- Director(s):
- Thorold Dickinson
- Writer(s):
- Katherine Strueby, Val Valentine, Walter Meade
- Producer(s):
- Gordon Wellesley
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