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- BFI identifier23299
- Date1950 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisThriller. Blind Chris Pelley is looking forward to having an operation which may bring back his eyesight. He is given a lift to London to attend a friend's party, but due to an address error on the driver's part, he arrives at the wrong building. Inside, he stumbles across the dead body of a man with a knife in his back. Pelley pockets a ring he finds on the floor by the body. A trio of thugs confront Pelley and, when they realise he is blind, they merely knock him out (since he has not seen their faces). Waking up in hospital, Pelley is persuaded that his unlikely adventure was a bad dream. Duly he regains his eyesight. When the ring from the crime scene turns up in his jacket pocket, he is convinced that he was indeed involved in a mystery. Setting out to catch out the killers, he visits the house of the crime again and learns that a man who lived there supposedly died in an air crash a year earlier. The man's twin sister, Pat, helps Pelley investigate further and they begin to uncover a currency smuggling gang. (Synopsis)
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Title
Blackout (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/3689-343B-1A59-E8DE-B66E-4Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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