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English. Cloudburst is a 1951 British crime drama film produced by Hammer Films, directed by Francis Searle, starring Robert Preston and featuring Elizabeth Sellars, Harold Lang, Colin Tapley and Sheila Burrell. The script is based on a play written by Leo Marks, [1] a wartime cryptographer for the Special Operations Executive, and later the ...
Cloudburst: Directed by Francis Searle. With Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars, Colin Tapley, Sheila Burrell. A Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife.
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- Film-Noir, Mystery
- Francis Searle
- 1951-07
Synopsis. In London in 1946, John Graham's decoder team easily deciphers a coded message, the contents of which will bring a World War II criminal to justice. When John's pregnant wife Carol picks him up that evening, he hides a coded list he has made of the presents he plans to buy her. During the war, Carol fought in the Resistance alongside ...
Cloudburst (1951) Cloudburst (1951) Cloudburst (1951) Cloudburst (1951) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code ...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Mystery & Thriller
- Francis Searle
Sep 5, 1991 · Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers. Francis Searle. Full Cast & Crew.
Cloudburst is a 1951 British crime drama film produced by Hammer Films, directed by Francis Searle, starring Robert Preston and featuring Elizabeth Sellars, Harold Lang, Colin Tapley and Sheila Burrell. The script is based on a play written by Leo Marks, a wartime cryptographer for the Special Operations Executive, and later the author of a memoir about his wartime work, Between Silk and ...
Sometimes film noir can be emotionally moving, which is particularly surprising when the protagonist is a cryptologist, as in Francis Searle’s Cloudburst, an unusual, romantic revenge tale that depicts the effects of World War II’s atrocities on the individual human psyche. Delivering a restrained performance, Robert Preston somehow manages ...
