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Once a Crook (1941)

Once a Crook poster
Directed by
Herbert Mason
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man with a criminal past tries to go straight but gets pulled back into a world of scheming and theft. The story follows his efforts to avoid trouble while dealing with a cast of quirky characters.

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What happens

Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Edward Black for 20th Century Fox and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Raymond Huntley. It was written by Roger Burford based on the 1939 stage play of the same title by Evadne Price and Ken Attiwell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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