Overview
An eccentric jewel-thief invites an assortment of people for a country house week-end, then keeps them prisoner after his plans to steal their jewels have been discovered.
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Setting
Set in England
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Music
Music by Ivor Slaney
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Kenneth HumeWriter
- Alan MelvilleOriginal Story
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 23, 1953
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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In the United States
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Cast
John JustinJim Henderson
Barbara MurrayMary
Ivor BarnardEdwin Carson
John PenroseFreddie Usher
Michael BalfourJacobson
Gabrielle BruneMarcella- Anthony PendrellBurroughs
Bill ShineHenry- Freda GrayLady Stone
- Dorothy WheatleyMarilyn
Sam KyddAdams- Derek SydneyKenrick
Archie DuncanWilson- Keith GrieveConstable #1
- Billy HowardConstable #2
- Ida PatlanskiMrs. Bertram
- Freddie TrippClub Waiter
- Kendal ChalmersMan in Club
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