Scarlet Thread

1951 film by Lewis Gilbert

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Scarlet Thread
Cover of DVD (Renown Pictures)
Directed by	Lewis Gilbert
Written by	Moie Charles A.R. Rawlinson
Produced by	Ernest G. Roy
Starring	Kathleen Byron Laurence Harvey
Cinematography	Geoffrey Faithfull
Music by	Kenneth D. Morrison
Distributed by	Butcher's Film Service (UK) Realart Pictures (US)
Release date	1951 (1951)
Running time	85 mins.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Scarlet Thread is a 1951 British crime drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and produced by Ernest G. Roy.

Plot

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Two criminals plan a jewellery robbery. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot.

Cast

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Kathleen Byron as Josephine
Laurence Harvey as Freddie
Sydney Tafler as Marcon
Arthur Hill as Shaw
Dora Bryan as Maggie
Eliot Makeham as Jason
Harry Fowler as Sam
Cyril Chamberlain as Mason
Renee Kelly as Eleanor
Hylton Allen as The Dean

Production

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The film was made at Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, England, and on location. A collection of location stills and corresponding contemporary photographs is hosted at reelstreets.com.^[1]