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Temptation Harbour is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lance Comfort released in USA on 27 may 1949 with Robert Newton
Temptation Harbour (1947)
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Add to a movie listTemptation Harbour is a British black and white crime/drama film directed by Lance Comfort, released in 1947 based on the novel Newhaven-Dieppe by Georges Simenon. The film was made at Welwyn Film Studios.
Synopsis
A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which later finds is full of banknotes with a value of £5000.Actors
Robert Newton
(Bert Mallinson)
Simone Simon
(Camelia)
William Hartnell
(Jim Brown)
Marcel Dalio
(Insp. Dupré)
Edward Rigby
(Tatem)
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