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High Treason (1951)

High Treason poster
Directed by
Roy Boulting
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British intelligence team investigates a conspiracy to sabotage the country's power plants. The story follows the officers as they race to stop the plot before it leads to disaster.

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What happens

High Treason is a 1951 British spy thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Liam Redmond, Anthony Bushell and André Morell. It was written by Boulting and Frank Harvey. It is a sequel to Seven Days to Noon (1950), co-directed by Boulting and John Boulting. The Guardian called the film "the only real British equivalent of the Red Scare movies then being turned out in Hollywood." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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