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The Broken Horseshoe is a film of genre Drama with Robert Beatty

The Broken Horseshoe (1953)

The Broken Horseshoe
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Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating57% 2.8606352.8606352.8606352.8606352.860635

The Broken Horseshoe is a 1953 British crime film directed by Martyn C. Webster and starring Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter Coke and Hugh Kelly. A surgeon is drawn into a murder case when he offers shelter to a woman who has witnessed a killing linked to a horse-doping syndicate. It was based on a television series The Broken Horseshoe which had aired the previous year.



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Actors

Robert Beatty

(Dr. Mark Benton)
Elizabeth Sellars

(Della Freeman)
Peter Coke

(Det. Insp. George Bellamy)
Ferdy Mayne

(Charles Constance)
James Raglan

(Supt. Grayson)
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