House of Secrets (1956 film)
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House of Secrets is a 1956 British
crime film
directed by Guy Green and starring Michael Craig, Anton Diffring
and Gérard Oury
. It was based on the novel Storm over Paris by Sterling Noel. A man is sent undercover to infiltrate an international crime organisation.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
crime film
Crime film
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directed by Guy Green and starring Michael Craig, Anton Diffring
Anton Diffring
Anton Diffring , born Alfred Pollack, was a German actor.-Biography:Diffring was born in Koblenz...
and Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.- A commercially successful French filmmaker :...
. It was based on the novel Storm over Paris by Sterling Noel. A man is sent undercover to infiltrate an international crime organisation.
Cast
- Michael Craig - Larry Ellis / Steve Chancellor
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