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Hatter's Castle is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lance Comfort released in USA on 19 april 1948 with Robert Newton

Hatter's Castle (1942)

Hatter's Castle
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Released in USA 19 april 1948
Length 1h42
Directed by
Genres Drama
Rating69% 3.4798653.4798653.4798653.4798653.479865

Hatter's Castle is a 1942 British film noir based on the 1931 novel Hatter's Castle by A. J. Cronin, which dramatizes the ruin that befalls a Scottish hatter set on recapturing his imagined lost nobility. The film was made by Paramount British Pictures and stars Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, and Emlyn Williams. It is believed to be the only film that depicts the Tay Bridge disaster.

Actors

Robert Newton

(James Brodie)Deborah Kerr

(Mary Brodie)James Mason

(Dr. Renwick)Emlyn Williams

(Dennis)Henry Oscar

(Grierson)
And :
Enid Stamp Taylor
Beatrice Varley
George Merritt
Laurence Hanray
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