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.^[1][2] The screenplay was by Leslie Arliss, Connery Chappell and Paul Gangelin based on the novel Crime Unlimited by David Hume.

Too Dangerous to Live
Directed by	Anthony Hankey Leslie Norman
Screenplay by	Leslie Arliss Connery Chappell Paul Gangelin David Hume (novel)
Produced by	Jerome Jackson
Starring	Sebastian Shaw Anna Konstam Reginald Tate
Cinematography	Basil Emmott
Production company	Warner Brothers-First National
Distributed by	Warner Brothers-First National
Release date	21 August 1939 (1939-08-21) (UK)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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."^[3]