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The Hundred Pound Window is a British film of genre Drama directed by Brian Desmond Hurst with Anne Crawford

The Hundred Pound Window (1944)

The Hundred Pound Window
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Length 1h24
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Comedy thriller,    Crime
Rating59% 2.968312.968312.968312.968312.96831

The Hundred Pound Window is a 1944 British crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Frederick Leister and Richard Attenborough. The film follows an accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, where he soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

Synopsis

Un comptable se trouve obligé de trouver un deuxième travail dans un champ de courses au guichet des paris. Il va se trouver mêlé aux agissements de criminels.

Actors

Anne Crawford

(Joan Draper)David Farrar

(George Graham)Frederick Leister

(Ernest Draper)Mary Clare

(Millie Draper)Richard Attenborough

(Tommy Draper)
And :
Niall MacGinnis
David Hutcheson
Claud Allister
Peter Gawthorne
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