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The October Man (1947)

19471h 31mdir. Roy Ward BakerUnited Kingdomfilm noirmystery film

Note: this print runs 91 minutes against a recorded 110 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Juliet Mills, Catherine Lacey, Edward Chapman, Felix Aylmer, James Hayter, Joyce Carey

Directed by Roy Ward Baker

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The October Man is a 1947 mystery film/film noir starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, written by novelist Eric Ambler, who also produced. A man is suspected of murder, and the lingering effects of a brain injury he sustained in an earlier accident, as well as an intensive police investigation, make him begin to doubt whether he is innocent.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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