Minor crime pic with Harvey as a cockney pickpocket and Tafler as scheming posh crook! They pull an old fashioned smash and grab, then flee to Cambridge, for dull second half. Some interesting location footage of the West End.
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Scarlet Thread
1951 EN 85 min
Overview
Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.
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Release date
01/05/1951
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Popularity
1.1
Kathleen Byron
Josephine
Laurence Harvey
Freddie
Sydney Tafler
Marcon
Arthur Hill
Shaw
Dora Bryan
Maggie
Eliot Makeham
Jason
Harry Fowler
Sam
Cyril Chamberlain
Mason
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Renee Kelly
Eleanor
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Hylton Allen
The Dean
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Sheila Aza
Girl
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Joyce Boorman
Daisy
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Joyce Brent
Vi Kaley
Shooting Gallery Patron
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John Powe
Porter
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Gerald Rex
Youth
Bill Shine
Basil
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John Wilder
Passer-by (uncredited)
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There are two things memorable about this crime drama. The first is Laurence Harvey's hair - two or three tubs of Brylcream? The second is - as always - Kathleen Byron's eyes. She can smile all she likes but those eyes always look they are about to impale you, violently, on a nearby rusty nail! Actually, as this film unfolds it proves distinctly possible that the former may well end up a victim of the latter as he and his partner-in-crime "Marcon" (Sydney Tafler) take refuge at her stately pile whilst on the run from the police. Harvey ("Freddie") is a cocky young man who panics during a jewel…
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