Two Crowded Hours

Two Crowded Hours is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Michael Powell. It was made as a Quota quickie and is the first film where Powell is credited as the director.

Michael Powells first feature as director, Two Crowded Hours was produced by Jerry Jackson for the Film Engineering Company and distributed by the British arm of Fox Pictures. With accomplished players John Longden star of Blackmail and Cockney character actor Jerry Verno, shooting was completed indays in April 1931 in and around Londons Soho. It was played for laughs and thrills, Powell said, and we were paidper foot by Fox. We got 4,000 on delivery so obviously we had to make it for 3,000. Although a few stills survive, there is no known print of Two Crowded Hours in existence.Two Crowded Hours has been declared to be Missing, Believed Lost by the British Film Institute. It is listed as one of their 75 Most Wanted lost films, along with two later Powell films The Price of a Song 1935 and The Man Behind the Mask 1936. ........

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