The Harassed Hero | |
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Directed by | Maurice Elvey |
Written by | Brock Williams |
Based on | The Harassed Hero by Ernest Dudley |
Produced by | Clive Nicholas |
Starring | Guy Middleton Joan Winmill Brown Elwyn Brook-Jones |
Cinematography | Hone Glendinning |
Edited by | Anne Barker |
Music by | Frank Chacksfield |
Production company | Corsair Pictures |
Distributed by | Associated British-Pathé |
Release date | 26 July 1954 |
Running time | 61 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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Wealthy hypochondriac bachelor Murray Selwyn (Guy Middleton) has been ordered by his doctors to avoid stress, but unfortunately finds himself face to face with a gang of counterfeiters. Murray has unwittingly come into possession of the printing plates the gang is after. His stress levels escalate further when Murray's nurse (Joan Winmill Brown) is kidnapped by the gang.
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