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Diamond City is a British film of genre Drama directed by David MacDonald with David Farrar
Diamond City (1949)
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Add to a movie listDiamond City is a 1949 British drama film directed by David MacDonald and starring David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors and Niall MacGinnis.
Synopsis
After the discovery and exploitation of a new diamond mine in South Africa, lawman Stafford Parker tries to maintain order in the ramshackle mining town that springs up around it.,Actors
David Farrar
(Stafford Parker)
Honor Blackman
(Mary Hart)
Diana Dors
(Dora Bracken)
Niall MacGinnis
(Hans Muller)
Mervyn Johns
(Hart)
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