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Daybreak

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Original title

Daybreak

Year

1948

Running time

78 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Compton Bennett

Screenwriter

Muriel Box, Sydney Box, Monckton Hoffe. Story: Monckton Hoffe

Cast

Music

Benjamin Frankel

Cinematography

Reginald H. Wyer (B&W)

Producer

Sydney Box Productions

Genre

Film noir. Mystery. Drama

Synopsis

A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's assistant tries to seduce his boss's wife - after a fight, the hangman is presumed drowned. The woman commits suicide, but the hangman has in fact survived, and manages to save his assistant from the gallows.

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Daybreak

1948

Compton Bennett

6.3

(31)