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The Jack of Diamonds is a British film of genre Drama directed by Vernon Sewell with Nigel Patrick

The Jack of Diamonds (1949)

The Jack of Diamonds
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Length 1h13
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Genres Drama,    Adventure
Rating58% 2.9051152.9051152.9051152.9051152.905115

The Jack of Diamonds is a 1949 British adventure film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Nigel Patrick, Cyril Raymond and Joan Carroll. Its plot follows an ex-soldier who persuades some yacht owners to help recover a treasure chest of jewels he hid off the Belgian coast in 1940 during the Second World War.

Actors

Nigel Patrick

(Alan Butler)Darcy Conyers

(Colin Campbell)Vernon Sewell

(Engineer)Edwin Richfield

(George Paxton)
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