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Delavine Affair (1954)

Delavine Affair poster
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

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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