Delavine Affair (1954)

Original title

The Delavine Affair

Directed by

Douglas Peirce

Genre

crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 04m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man gets involved with a secretive family and tangled in a web of crime and suspicion. The story follows his efforts to uncover the truth behind a mysterious death.

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What happens

The Delavine Affair is a 1955 British second feature crime film directed by Douglas Peirce and starring Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman and Gordon Jackson. The screenplay was by George Fisher and Basil Boothroyd, based on the 1952 novel Winter Wears a Shroud by Robert Chapman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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