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Director: Basil Dearden
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From Time Out Film Guide
After the success of the police drama The Blue Lamp (1949), Basil Dearden and Ealing studios continued in what passed for a realist vein with this tale of merchant seaman Colleano's involvement in a diamond smuggling racket and his subsequent flight when he becomes chief suspect in a murder investigation. Few surprises in the story, but the location work in the bustling Docklands captures a time and place now gone forever. And Earl Cameron's contribution is an early example of a black performer getting a significant leading role in a contemporary British drama.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Basil Dearden
Producer: Michael Balcon
Cast: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renee Asherson, Earl Cameron, Moira Lister, Max Adrian, Joan Dowling, James Robertson Justice, Alfie Bass, Leslie Phillips, George Benson, Victor Maddern full cast
Duration: 85 mins
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