The Hundred Pound Window

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The Hundred Pound Window
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Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Written by Brock Williams
Rodney Ackland (additional dialogue)
Story by Mark Hellinger
Based ona screenplay
by Abem Finkel
Starring Anne Crawford
David Farrar
Frederick Leister
Cinematography Otto Heller
Music by Hans May
Production
company
Warner Brothers-First National Productions
Distributed by Warner Bros. (UK)
Release date
  • 3 April 1944 (1944-04-03)(UK)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£64,464 [1]
Box office£54,748 [1]

The Hundred Pound Window is a 1944 British comedy crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Frederick Leister and Richard Attenborough. [2] An accountant has to take a second job working at a racetrack, where he soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

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It was shot at Teddington Studios, the home of Warner Brothers's British subsidiary.

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References

  1. 1 2 Steve Chibnall (2019) Hollywood-on-Thames: the British productions ofWarner Bros. – First National, 1931–1945, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 39:4, 687-724, DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2019.1615292 at p 714
  2. BFI.org

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