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Director: Fritz Lang
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From Time Out Film Guide
A boy and a rakish smuggler search for a legendary lost diamond in a wonderfully stylised version of 19th century Cornwall. The characters are linked and haunted by the memory of the boy's dead mother, and their 'romance' is a journey through a dark world of gallows and graveyards. Lang disliked working in CinemaScope, a ratio he described in Le Mépris as 'only good for funerals and snakes', but uses it brilliantly. (From a novel by J Meade Falkner.Author: SJ
Cast & crew
Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: John Houseman
Cast: Stewart Granger, Jon Whiteley, George Sanders, Viveca Lindfors, Joan Greenwood, Melville Cooper, Jack Elam, Dan Seymour, Ian Wolfe full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 87 mins
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