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The Delavine Affair is a 1955 British second feature crime film directed by Douglas Peirce and starring Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman and Gordon Jackson. The screenplay was by George Fisher and Basil Boothroyd, based on the 1952 novel Winter Wears a Shroud by Robert Chapman.
The Delavine Affair: Directed by Douglas Peirce. With Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman, Gordon Jackson, Valerie Vernon. A man's death leads a local newspaperman and the man's girlfriend to seek the killer.
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- Crime, Drama
- Douglas Peirce
- 1955-01-03
The Delavine Affair is a jewel robbery orchestrated by a particularly vicious criminal gang. Reporter Peter Reynolds (his character name is-no kidding-Rex Banner) makes it his mission in life to track down the crooks and round them up for the Law.
Overview. Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder. Douglas Peirce. Director. George Fisher. Screenplay. Robert H. Chapman. Story. Full Cast & Crew. Reviews 1. Discussions 0.
The Delavine Affair (1955) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Rex Banner, played by Peter Reynolds, is the proprietor of a news agency and having an eye for a good story, becomes an amateur sleuth to find out who murdered his friend Gospel Joe and as a consequence, who was responsible for the theft of the Delavine diamonds sometime earlier.
A freelance reporter and his wife stumble upon a murder while investigating a series of jewel thefts.
- Mystery & Thriller
