Strange Stories (1953)

Directed by

Don Chaffey

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

45 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film presents two separate tales. One follows a mysterious scrivener whose quiet refusal to work baffles his employer. The other involves a passenger on a ship who harbors a secret.

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What happens

Strange Stories is a 1953 British drama film directed by Don Chaffey and John Guillermin and starring Peter Bull, Naomi Chance and Valentine Dyall. It comprises two separate stories, "The Strange Mr. Bartleby", based on Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener, and "The Strange Journey", based on The Saloon Passenger by E.W. Hornung. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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