Flannelfoot (1953)

Directed by

Maclean Rogers

Genre

crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 14m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective investigates a series of burglaries committed by a mysterious thief who muffles his footsteps. The story follows the efforts to catch the criminal and clear an innocent suspect.

tamedatedlow-budgetmildstraightforwardmodestformulaicleisurely

What happens

Flannelfoot is a 1953 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Ronald Howard, Mary Germaine and Jack Watling. It was written by Carl Heck and Jack Henry, and made at Walton Studios. The film's sets were designed by John Stoll. The film reflects the media interest in the notorious and elusive cat burglar of the 1930s Harry Edward Vickers who was nicknamed Flannelfoot because he would cover his boots with cloth to silence his footsteps. The title and the burglar's use of cloth on his boots are the only two resemblances between the actual case and the film's plot, with the latter instead mainly set in the early 1950s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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