Cloudburst | |
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Directed by | Francis Searle |
Produced by |
Anthony Hinds Alexander Paal |
Written by |
Leo Marks (play) Francis Searle |
Starring | Robert Preston |
Music by | Frank Spencer |
Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
Edited by | John Ferris |
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Distributed by |
United Artists (USA) Exclusive Films (UK) |
Release date
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July 1951 |
Running time
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83 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Cloudburst is a 1951 British crime drama film, 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 Cyanide (1998). The film is about a World War II veteran, a former operative for the SOE, who seeks revenge on the driver and passenger of a hit-and-run automobile that struck and killed his wife.