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Call the Gun Expert: The Trick that Failed - 1918

BBC One
on BBC One London

Written and narrated by MacDonald Hastings adapted from his book "The Other Mr. Churchill" with Wensley Pithey as Robert Churchill.
A Tonight presentation
In 1918 a music-hall audience applauded as Chung Ling Soo, the famous Chinese magician, was fatally wounded performing his dangerous trick 'Catching the Bullets'. Was it murder, suicide, or accident?

Contributors

Writer/narrator:
MacDonald Hastings
Cameraman:
Hannen Foss
Assistant cameraman:
David Findlay
Sound recordist:
Stan Nightingale
Film editor:
Peter Moseley
Designer:
Stewart Marshall
Producer:
Jack Gold
Robert Churchill:
Wensley Pithey
Chung Ling Soo:
Billy McComb
Boy assistant:
Terry Raven
Girl assistant:
Rita Craig
Manager:
Norman Mitchell
Source: Radio Times

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