Crown v. Stevens (1936)

Directed by

Michael Powell

Genre

crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 06m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man gets mixed up with a woman and crime. Things go badly for him.

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What happens

Crown v. Stevens is a 1936 British crime thriller film directed by Michael Powell, starring Beatrix Thomson and Patric Knowles and featuring Glennis Lorimer and Googie Withers. It was made as a "quota quickie", a film made to fulfill a legal requirement at the time that a certain percentage of films shown in British movie theatres be made in the U.K. by British personnel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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