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80,000 Suspects (1963)

80,000 Suspects poster
Directed by
Val Guest
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 53m
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A smallpox outbreak breaks out in Bath, England. A doctor and a health inspector race to quarantine thousands of people and find the source of the disease.

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What happens

80,000 Suspects is a 1963 British drama film directed by Val Guest and starring Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan and Cyril Cusack. It was written by Guest based on the 1957 novel Pillars of Midnight by Elleston Trevor. An outbreak of smallpox in Bath, England leads to a race to contain the virus. The film was not released in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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