Cloudburst (1951 film)

Cloudburst
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFrancis Searle
Written byLeo Marks (play)
Francis Searle
Produced byAnthony Hinds
Alexander Paal
StarringRobert Preston
CinematographyWalter J. Harvey
Edited byJohn Ferris
Music byFrank Spencer
Production
company
Distributed byExclusive 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).

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]

Cast

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.


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