Howard Keel
Donovan
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During a flood, prison convict Donovan escapes while helping build a barrier for an impending flood. He gets swept away in the waters, along with his prison guard, Sharkey, and a fellow prisoner, Peebles. They wash up at a farm house of Dr Mathews, who is away helping victims of the flood. The trio are alone until Dr Mathews' daughter Anne arrives.
Floods of Fear: Directed by Charles Crichton. With Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack, Harry H. Corbett. Two inmates working to shore up a dike during a severe flood are swept away in the current along with their guard.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Charles Crichton
- 1959-02-12
Floods of Fear, produced by Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil, 1945), was a decidedly different role for Keel, however, and played against his clean-cut hero image. In this film, he plays a hardened convict named Donovan who escapes from a prison detail while helping build a barrier for an impending flood.
- Charles Crichton
- Harry H. Corbett
Floods of Fear is directed by Charles Crichton who also co-adapts the screenplay with Vivienne Knight from the novel written by John and Ward Hawkins. It stars Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack, Harry H. Corbett, John Crawford and Eddie Byrne. Music is by Alan Rawsthorne and cinematography by Christopher Challis.
Floods of Fear 1959 1h 22m Drama List Reviews A man (Howard Keel) framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman (Anne Heywood) in distress.
- Drama
- Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack
- Charles Crichton
Floods of Fear (1958) The Waterworld Redemption. Floods of Fear is directed by Charles Crichton who also co-adapts the screenplay with Vivienne Knight from the novel written by John and Ward Hawkins. It stars Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack, Harry H. Corbett, John Crawford and Eddie Byrne. Music is by Alan Rawsthorne and cinematography ...
After years of suffering through lookalike MGM musicals (at least, that was his complaint), Howard Keel was able to sink his teeth into a dramatic role in the British Floods of Fear. Serving a life term for murder, Donavan (Howard Keel) breaks out of jail with sadistic convict Peebles (Cyril Cusack), taking along a wounded guard (Harry H ...
