Cloudburst (1951 film)

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Cloudburst
Cloudburst poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Francis Searle
Written by Leo Marks (play)
Francis Searle
Produced by Anthony Hinds
Alexander Paal
Starring Robert Preston
Cinematography Walter J. Harvey
Edited byJohn Ferris
Music by Frank Spencer
Production
company
Distributed by Exclusive Films (UK)
United Artists (USA)
Release date
  • July 1951 (1951-07)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Cloudburst is a 1951 British crime drama film produced by Hammer Films, directed by Francis Searle, starring Robert Preston and featuring Elizabeth Sellars, Harold Lang, Colin Tapley and Sheila Burrell. The script is based on a play written by Leo Marks, [1] a wartime cryptographer for the Special Operations Executive, and later the author of a memoir about his wartime work, Between Silk and Cyanide (1998).

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Plot

A World War II veteran, a former operative for the SOE, seeks revenge on the driver and passenger of a hit-and-run automobile that struck and killed his wife. [2]

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References

  1. Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (7 October 2017). The British 'B' Film. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 78. ISBN   978-1844575749.
  2. Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference . Oxford University Press. p.  141. ISBN   019815934X.