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They Can't Hang Me is a British film of genre Drama directed by Val Guest with Terence Morgan
They Can't Hang Me (1955)
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Add to a movie listThey Can't Hang Me is a 1955 British drama film directed by Val Guest and starring Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan and Anthony Oliver. It was based on a novel by Leonard Mosley.
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A senior civil servant, Pitt (Morell) has been convicted of a murder and sentenced to death. Days before his execution, Pitt reveals that he has been passing on top secret information to an agent of a foreign power and offers to reveal the identity of his handler in exchange for a reprieve. With only five days before Pitt's execution, debonair Special Branch Inspector Ralph Brown (Morgan) takes on the task of identifying the spy before he flees the country.Actors
Terence Morgan
(Inspector Ralph Brown)
Yolande Donlan
(Jill Wilson)
André Morell
(Robert Isaac Pitt)
Anthony Oliver
(Inspector Newcombe)
Reginald Beckwith
(Harold)
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