Date with Disaster

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Date with Disaster

Critical reception: wikilinked The Daily Film Renter.

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''[[Picturegoer]]'' wrote: "Thankfully, the leading roles are handled with all seriousness and stoutly retread its worn, but by no means 'down to the canvas,' plot."{{Cite journal|date=4 November 1957|title=Date with Disaster|id={{ProQuest|1771128260}}|magazine=[[Picturegoer]]|volume=34|issue=|pages=16}}
''[[Picturegoer]]'' wrote: "Thankfully, the leading roles are handled with all seriousness and stoutly retread its worn, but by no means 'down to the canvas,' plot."{{Cite journal|date=4 November 1957|title=Date with Disaster|id={{ProQuest|1771128260}}|magazine=[[Picturegoer]]|volume=34|issue=|pages=16}}


''The Daily Film Renter'' wrote: "The photography is creditable and performances competent, apart from a tendency at times to overact. Pace ambles into a easy allegro and never quite reaches crescendo and there is a lack of development."{{Cite journal|date=16 July 1957|title=Date with Disaster|id={{ProQuest|3130707477}}|magazine=The Daily Film Renter|volume=|issue=7424|pages=4}}
''[[The Daily Film Renter]]'' wrote: "The photography is creditable and performances competent, apart from a tendency at times to overact. Pace ambles into a easy allegro and never quite reaches crescendo and there is a lack of development."{{Cite journal|date=16 July 1957|title=Date with Disaster|id={{ProQuest|3130707477}}|magazine=The Daily Film Renter|volume=|issue=7424|pages=4}}


In ''British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959'' [[David Quinlan (film critic)|David Quinlan]] rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Follows a well-worn path."{{Cite book |last=Quinlan |first=David |title=British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 |publisher=[[Batsford Books|B.T. Batsford Ltd.]] |year=1984 |isbn=0-7134-1874-5 |location=London |pages=299}}
In ''British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959'' [[David Quinlan (film critic)|David Quinlan]] rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Follows a well-worn path."{{Cite book |last=Quinlan |first=David |title=British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 |publisher=[[Batsford Books|B.T. Batsford Ltd.]] |year=1984 |isbn=0-7134-1874-5 |location=London |pages=299}}
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