Blackout (Original title)
Date: 1950 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert S. Baker
Synopsis: Thriller. 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.
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Blindness, Homicide, Smuggling
Title: [Today's Cinema - v75 n6083 18 Sep 1950: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v17 n201 October 1950 Page: 152
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v17 n201 October 1950: no known title]Language: English
Date: 1950 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert S. Baker
Synopsis: Thriller. 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.
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Blindness, Homicide, Smuggling
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In: Today's Cinema v75 n6083 18 Sep 1950Title: [Today's Cinema - v75 n6083 18 Sep 1950: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v17 n201 October 1950 Page: 152
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v17 n201 October 1950: no known title]Language: English