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Recoil (1953)

Recoil poster
Directed by
John Gilling
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 19m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man gets caught up in a criminal scheme after a failed robbery. He tries to escape the consequences of his actions.

tensegrittynoir-ishunderstatedlow-keysuspensefulrestrainedmethodical

What happens

Recoil is a 1953 British 'B' crime film directed and written by John Gilling and starring Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars and Edward Underdown. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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