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British noir II, 5 film set

eng

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British noir II

videorecording

1137595892

363

Kino classics

5 film set

The interrupted journey : After reconsidering eloping with another womanat the last minute, John North pulls the emergency break on the train he is traveling on and returns home to his wife. Later on, after the train crashes and many of the passengers end up dying including his mistress, John becomes a suspect when the police discover that she had been murdered prior to the crashCosh boy : a gang of teenage delinguents, led by Roy, is earning money by mugging women on the streets of London. The police catch up with them and of their hearing, the judge sentences them to a youth club to reform their ways. The boys use the club as the base for their growing operationTime is my enemy : Radley is a small-time crook, believed to be dead, who returns to his wife after a long absence to find her remarried to a wealthy publisher. When Radley kills a jeweler in a robbery, so in turn Radley blackmails his wifeTime lock : a south Yorkshire bank employee's young son is accidentally sealed in a bank vault with a 63-hour time lock. The vault cannot be opened manually and with less than ten hours of oxygen left inside the safe, it becomes a race to save the boyThe vicious circle : The great John Mills stars as Dr. Howard Latimer, who one day received a telephone call apparently from his movie mogul friend, asking him to pick up film star Frieda Veldon at the airport and drive her to her hotel. A few days later, he arrives at his flat only to find Frieda's dead body. The police are called in and now he must solve the mystery himself in order to prove his innocence

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British noir 2Interrupted journeyCosh boyTime is my enemyTime lockVicious circle