5.5Summary
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself.
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- Directed by
- John Harlow
- Written by
- Geoffrey Orme
- Produced by
- Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker
- Music by
- Cecil Thornton, George Burgess
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Facts
July 1, 1954 · 58 min · Suicide Themes
- Released
- July 1, 1954
- Runtime
- 58 min
- Content
- Suicide Themes
- Genres
- Crime
- Original language
- English
- Made in
- United Kingdom