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Vengeance Is Mine (Original title)
Date: 1948 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Alan Cullimore

Synopsis: Having served a prison sentence for a crime he did not commit, and, shortly after his release, finding he is dying from an incurable disease, a man hires an assassin to kill him in order to place the blame on his ex-business partner who had framed him.

Genre:
Crime
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 59 mins Length: 5426 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (23)
A Cullimore-Arbeid Production: Cullimore-Arbeid, Produced by: Ben Arbeid, Production Manager: Donald Wynne, Production Secretary: Myra Osborn, Assistant Director: Jimmy Shingfield, 2nd Assistant Director: Aida Young, Continuity: Renée Glynne, Screenplay by: Alan J. Cullimore, Director of Photography: Jimmy Wilson, Camera Operator: Bill Oxley, Focus Puller: Pierpoint, Editor: Gerald Landau, Assistant Editor: Derek Turrell, Art Director: George Ward, Wardrobe: Myra Davies, Make-up: Harry Webber, Hairdressing: Barry Ellman, Music Composed and Directed by: Ken Thorne, [Music] Played by: The Vic Lewis Orchestra, Sound Supervisor: Charles Parkhouse, Sound System: RCA Sound System, Produced at: Kays Studios
Cast (18)
Valentine Dyall (Charles Heywood), Anne Firth (Linda Farrell), Richard Goolden (Sammy Parsons), Sam Kydd (Stacey), Ethel Coleridge (Mrs Briggs), Pat Drake (Patsy), G. Alex Wright (the doctor), Arthur Brander (Richard Kemp), Russell Westwood (Cass), Roland Caswell (police sergeant), Alex Graham (barman), Michael Darbyshire (policeman), Jack Hart (barman), Bart Allison (police sergeant), Michael Bird (policeman), Manville Tarrant (father), Betty Taylor (little girl), Bob Connor (garage man)