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Temptation Harbour (Original title)
Date: 28 April 1947 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Lance Comfort

Synopsis: A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One man is pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but he keeps his suitcase which he finds is full of banknotes with a value of £5000.

Genres:
Crime, Thriller

Subject:
Signalmen
Releases
Date: 1947Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 102 mins Length: 9200 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: November 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 102 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (23)
Presents: Associated British Picture Corporation, World Distribution by: Pathe Pictures Limited, Produced by: Victor Skutezky, Production Manager: W.A. Whittaker, Assistant Director: G. Agosti, Continuity: E. Schreyeck, Scenario Editor: T.J Morrison, Screen Play by: Rodney Ackland, Screen Play by: Frederick Gotfurt, Victor Skutezky, From the novel 'Newhaven-Dieppe': Georges Simenon, Director of Photography: Otto Heller, Camera: G. Drisse, Camera [Focus Puller]: B. Day, Film Editor: Kieran Carruthers, Art Director: Cedric Dawe, Make-up: R. Clark, Music by: Mischa Spoliansky, Sound: H. Benson, Sound: F. Mcnally, Sound System: RCA Sound System, Made at: Welwyn Studios
Cast (20)
Robert Newton (Bert Mallinson), Simone Simon (Marie/'Camelia'), William Hartnell (James Brown), Marcel Dalio (Dupre), Margaret Barton (Betty Mallinson), Edward Rigby (Mr. Tatem), Charles Victor (George Gowshall), Kathleen Harrison (Mabel Slater), Irene Handl (Ethel Gowshall), Wylie Watson (Fred), Leslie Dwyer (Reg Slater), Edward Lexey (stationmaster), Dave Crowley (Teddy), John Salew (C.I.D. inspector), George Woodbridge (Joe Frost, the butcher), Kathleen Boutall (Mrs Frost), Gladys Henson (Mrs. Titmuss), Joan Hopkins ([Mrs Brown]), W.G. Fay ([night porter]), Patricia Fox ([])