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The Spaniard's Curse (1958)

The Spaniard's Curse poster
Directed by
Ralph Kemplen
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is haunted by a dying curse after a violent incident in a Spanish town. The film follows him as he becomes entangled in a web of suspicion and danger back in England.

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What happens

The Spaniard's Curse is a 1958 British second feature ('B') thriller film directed by Ralph Kemplen and starring Tony Wright, Lee Patterson, Michael Hordern, Susan Beaumont and Henry Oscar. It was written by Kenneth Hyde, Kemplen and Roger Proudlock based on the 1958 novella The Assize of the Dying by Edith Pargeter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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