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Director
  
Robert S. Baker

Music director
  
John Lanchbery

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cinematography
  
Monty Berman

Country
  
Great Britain

Blackout (1950 film) movie poster

Release date
  
September 1950 (1950-09) (United Kingdom)

Writer
  
John Gilling (screenplay), Carl Nystrom (story)

Cast
  
Maxwell Reed
(Chris Pelly),
Dinah Sheridan
(Pat Dale),
Eric Pohlmann
(Otto Ford),
Ida Patlanski
(Postmistress)

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Blackout is a 1950 English crime drama film directed by Robert S. Baker. The film featured Maxwell Reed, Dinah Sheridan, Patric Doonan, Kynaston Reeves, Annette D. Simmonds, Eric Pohlmann, Michael Evans and Michael Brennan in the lead roles. The film depicts the story of an engineer (Maxwell Reed) who is able to find out the murderers involved in a murder mystery with the help of Patricia Dale (Dinah Sheridan).

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The film was the first featured appearance of Ronald Leigh-Hunt.

Plot

An engineer Christopher Pelly (Maxwell Reed), loses his eyesight in an accident. He goes to London to have an eye operation. There he wants to go to his friends house but the taxi driver dropped him at the wrong house in Kensington. In the house three men had murdered a person with a knife and the corpse was lying on the floor. Pelly doesn't know that he is in the wrong house, and seeing that he is blind, the three murderers don't kill him. Pelly reported the incident to the police but the police were unable to find the dead body. When Pelly regains his eyesight after the operation he decides to solve the murder mystery.

He reaches the house where the murder had taken place. There he meets Patricia Dale (Dinah Sheridan), who had lost her brother in a plane crash a year ago. Pelly tells the story to her and they decide to solve the murder mystery.

Cast

  • Maxwell Reed as Chris Pelly
  • Dinah Sheridan as Pat Dale
  • Patric Doonan as Chalky
  • Kynaston Reeves as Mr. Dale
  • Annette D. Simmonds as Lila Drew
  • Eric Pohlmann as Otto Ford
  • Michael Evans as Guy Sinclair
  • Michael Brennan as Mickey Garston
  • Ernest Butcher as Benny
  • Campbell Singer as Inspector
  • Madoline Thomas as Housekeeper
  • Basil Appleby as Norman Dale
  • Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Dr. Langley
  • Pat Metcalfe as Maid
  • Ida Patlanski as Postmistress
  • Jean Lodge as Nurse

    • References

    Blackout (1950 film) Wikipedia
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    Blackout (1950 film) IMDb Blackout (1950 film) themoviedb.org