The film is one of many ‘quota quickies’, B-featurettes shown in cinemas, an unintended side-effect of the Cinematograph Film Act of 1927.

Director Harold Baim seems to have had a real suburballardian fascination for motorways, multi-storey car parks and tower blocks.

Discovered thanks to a wonderful documentary by Laurie Taylor, which just finished. (I’ll upload it tomorrow after it appears on Listen Again.)

Update: The good people at Speechification, an excellent weblog that posts highlights from Radio 4 and other ‘intelligent speech’ stations, have archived the documentary.

Already lacking a distributor, after the Disney-owned Buena Vista International balked at it’s content (despite the fact that the film was financed by Disney-owned Miramax), poor Moore now finds himself without press representation. Which must sting for such a shameless self-publicist.

Until yesterday, Moore was on the books of publicists McDonald & Rutter, but not any more. Fed up with the constant to-and-fro between Miramax, the Disney spin machine and Moore himself, Jonathon Rutter said, ‘Life is too short to work with people like that.’

Ouch.

On the plus side, for Moore if not his subject, Hannah reports that the film is a corker - ‘spectacular stuff’ to be precise - and looks likely to have secured a distributor before the week is out.

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