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The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)

The House of the Seven Hawks poster
Directed by
Richard Thorpe
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American captain in search of sunken treasure gets caught up with criminals and arrested by Dutch police. It is a British mystery thriller from 1959.

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What happens

The House of the Seven Hawks is a 1959 British mystery film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey and Linda Christian. It was written by Jo Eisinger based on the 1952 Victor Canning novel The House of the Seven Flies. It was the final film by Robert Taylor under his twenty five-year contract with MGM. The film follows an American captain searching for sunken treasure who becomes entangled with criminals and is arrested by the Dutch police. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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