23 Paces to Baker Street | |
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Directed by | Henry Hathaway |
Screenplay by | Nigel Balchin |
Based on | Warrant for X 1938 novel by Philip MacDonald |
Produced by | Henry Ephron |
Starring | Van Johnson Vera Miles Cecil Parker |
Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
Edited by | James B. Clark |
Music by | Leigh Harline |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,375,000[1] |
Box office | $1 million (US rentals)[2] |
23 Paces to Baker Street is a 1956 American DeLuxe Color mystery thriller film directed by Henry Hathaway. It was released by 20th Century-Fox and filmed in CinemaScope on location in London. The screenplay by Nigel Balchin was based on the 1938 novel Warrant for X by Philip MacDonald.
The 1939 British film The Nursemaid Who Disappeared was also based on MacDonald's novel.[3]