77 Park Lane | |
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Directed by | Albert de Courville |
Produced by | William Hutter |
Screenplay by | Michael Powell Reginald Berkeley |
Based on | play 77 Park Lane (1928) by Walter C. Hackett [1] |
Starring | Dennis Neilson-Terry Betty Stockfeld Malcolm Keen Ben Welden |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Faithfull Mutz Greenbaum |
Edited by | Arthur Seabourne |
Production company | Famous Players Guild |
Distributed by | United Artists Corporation (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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