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Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: OPTD0726 | OptimumSeries: Early Hitchcock collectionPublication details: [S.l.] : Optimum Releasing, c2007.Description: 1 videodisc (61 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:

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Credits: Alma Reville also credited with screenplay on container but not in opening credits ; produced by Leon M. Lion and John Maxwell.

Cast: Leon M. Lion (Ben), Anne Grey (The girl), John Stuart (The detective), Donald Calthrop (Brant), Barry Jones (Henry Doyle), Ann Casson (Rose Ackroyd), Henry Caine (Mr Ackroyd), Garry Marsh (Sheldrake).Summary: A detective tracks a group of criminals to a deserted house above a rail depot that they are using to escape to the continent. According to biographer Donald Spoto, Hitchcock considered the source material "a bundle of clichés and so with writers Rodney Ackland and Alma Reville set about sending up the genre, climaxing the film with the chase to end all chases between a bus and a train.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-02197 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050183716

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