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Faces in the Dark (1960)

Faces in the Dark poster
Directed by
David Eady
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British thriller set in a large country house during a blackout. Strange events and a possible murderer create a mood of paranoia among the characters.

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What happens

Faces in the Dark is a 1960 black and white British thriller film directed by David Eady and starring John Gregson, Mai Zetterling and John Ireland. The screenplay, by Ephraim Kogan and John Tully, is based on the 1952 novel Les Visages de l'ombre by Boileau-Narcejac. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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