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Offbeat is a film of genre Crime directed by Cliff Owen with William Sylvester
Offbeat (1961)
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Add to a movie listOffbeat (AKA The Devil Inside in the U.S.) is a 1961 black-and-white British crime film directed by Cliff Owen and starring William Sylvester, Mai Zetterling, and John Meillon. In the film, an MI5 officer goes undercover to catch a criminal gang.
Actors
William Sylvester
(Layton / Steve Ross)
Mai Zetterling
(Ruth Lombard)
John Meillon
(Johnny Hemick)
Anthony Dawson
(James Dawson)
Neil McCarthy
(Leo Farrell)
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