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The Stranger Left No Card (1952)

The Stranger Left No Card poster
Directed by
Wendy Toye
Genre
crime
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
23 min
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A stranger arrives in a small English town and takes a room in a local hotel. He begins a careful campaign to ingratiate himself with the residents, but his real purpose is a chilling act of revenge.

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What happens

The Stranger Left No Card is a 1952 British short film directed by Wendy Toye and starring Alan Badel in his screen debut. It was adapted from the story of the same name by Sidney Carroll. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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