Morning Call (film)

Morning Call (U.S. title: The Strange Case of Dr. Manning) is a 1957 British thriller film, directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Greta Gynt and Ron Randell.

The producers claimed that Raft was insistent on his character having a romantic involvement with the leading lady, which they could not accept as they felt it would unbalance the plot and be seen as incongruous by audiences.

[2] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "It is rare to find a melodrama at once so conventional and so unconvincing as this British second feature.

"[3] Kine Weekly wrote: "The picture covers a fair amount of ground, but although tension is created towards the finish, it lacks sharpness.

Ron Randell and Bruce Seton register as Nick and Inspector Brown, and the ubiquitous Peter Noble pops up a TV announcer, but Greta Gynt falls short of emotional demands as Annette, and its subsidiary characters are loosely etched.