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My Brother's Keeper (1948)

My Brother's Keeper poster
Directed by
Alfred Roome
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two escaped convicts go on the run after breaking out of prison. The film follows their struggle to stay ahead of the law.

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What happens

My Brother's Keeper is a 1948 British crime film directed by Alfred Roome and starring Jack Warner and George Cole. It was written by Frank Harvey from a story by Maurice Wiltshire. It was produced by Sydney Boxv for Gainsborough Pictures. It was the first of only two films directed by Roome, the other being It's Not Cricket (1949), during a long career as a film editor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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