Man in Black (film)
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Director Francis Searle Screenplay John Gilling Language English | 6/10 IMDb Genre Thriller, Horror Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer John Gilling , Francis Searle , John Dickson Carr Release date January 1950 (UK) Music director Frank Spencer, Rupert Grayson Cast Betty Ann Davies (Bertha Clavering), Sheila Burrell (Janice), Sid James (Henry Clavering / Hodson), Anthony Forwood (Victor Harrington), Hazel Penwarden (Joan Clavering), Valentine Dyall (Story Teller / Narrator)Similar movies I Love a Mystery , The Devil's Mask , The Unknown , Myrt And Marge , The Shadow , Dick Barton: Special Agent |
Man in Black is a 1949 British thriller film directed by Francis Searle and starring Betty Ann Davies, Sheila Burrell and Sid James. It was adapted by Hammer Films from the popular British radio series Appointment with Fear featuring Valentine Dyall. Dyall (The "Man in Black" of the radio series) here provides the on screen introduction to the film, as "The Story-Teller".
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Henry Clavering suspects his second wife Bertha is trying to drive his daughter (by his first marriage) insane, to stop her inheriting his money. He decides to use his yoga skills to pretend to be dead, and thereby expose her villainy.
Plot
After the death of her yogi father during a freak "yoga accident", Joan Clavering returns home to her widowed and suddenly very wealthy step-mother Bertha. The latter conspires with her daughter Janice to drive Joan insane and deprive her of her rightful inheritance.
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What the Butler Saw (1950). Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974). Sid James appears in Man in Black and The Flanagan Boy. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955). The Last Page (1952).
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