Tower of Terror (1941 film)

Tower of Terror
Directed by	Lawrence Huntington
Produced by	John Argyle
Written by	John Reinhardt (story) John Argyle
Starring	Wilfrid Lawson Michael Rennie Movita Morland Graham
Music by	Charles Williams
Cinematography	Ronald Anscombe Walter J. Harvey Bryan Langley
Edited by	Flora Newton
Production company	Associated British Picture Corporation
Distributed by	Pathé Pictures
Release date	27 December 1941
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Tower of Terror is a 1941 British thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Michael Rennie and Movita. It was made at Welwyn Studios with location shooting on Flat Holm off the Welsh coast.

Anthony Hale is a British secret agent in Germany who takes a job as assistant to lighthouse keeper Wolfe Kristan; and who plans to make off with some valuable papers when a British boat arrives to pick them up. Marie meanwhile has escaped from a concentration camp and swims to the lighthouse, where she is rescued by the deranged Kristan, who sees in her the image of a wife he killed 16 years earlier and buried on the lighthouse grounds. Can Hale rescue Marie from a similar fate at the lighthouse keepers hands?

The New York Times reviewer called it a "dire little melodrama...A penny dreadful thriller about a mad lighthouse keeper on the German-occupied coast, it cannot overcome the lacks of a preposterous story preposterously acted or a sound track which gives the impression that every one is speaking with a gag over the mouth. Even Wilfrid Lawson, that excellent actor, gives a ludicrously overwrought portrait of insanity as the keeper...Not good".