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Director:
Writers:
Graham Greene (novel)
Sydney Box (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
31 January 1948 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Life in the Raw!
Plot:
Told in flashback, the film opens on a brutal scene of a 17-year-old boy, Francis Andrews, being brutally... more | add synopsis
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A film ahead of its time in showing male affection. more (3 total)

Cast

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Michael Redgrave ... Richard Carlyon
Jean Kent ... Lucy
Joan Greenwood ... Elizabeth

Richard Attenborough ... Francis Andrews
Francis L. Sullivan ... Braddock
Felix Aylmer ... Priest
Ronald Shiner ... Cockney Harry
Basil Sydney ... Sir Henry Merriman
Ernest Thesiger ... Farne
Allan Jeayes ... Judge
Ralph Truman ... Prison Interrogator
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrew Crawford
Maurice Denham ... Smuggler
Lyn Evans ... Warder
Danny Green ... Smuggler
David Horne ... Dr. Stanton
Herbert Lomas ... Farmer
Allan McClelland
George Merritt ... Hilliard
John Olson ... Junior Counsel
Charles Rolfe ... Court Usher
Torin Thatcher ... Jailer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Smugglers (USA)
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Runtime:
88 min | UK:109 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #12367) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:K-16 | UK:A

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A film ahead of its time in showing male affection., 20 February 2002
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Author: (bullboor@aol.com) from Philadelphia area, USA

The release date on the film is given as 1947 but I'm certain I saw it in 1946 aboard a Navy ship returning from service in the Pacific in World War II, and its title then was "The Smugglers." The cast was uncommonly fine (look at the list!)and the acting excellent in a very good Graham Greene story. What struck me was the intensity of the bond between the boy (Attenborough) and his guardian (Redgrave) whom he loves but, as I recall, betrays and brings to his death. There were few such representations on film in those days--I remember the friendship between Paris and Drake in "King's Row" and between George and Lennie in "Of Mice and Men," but not much else. Few people seem to know "The Man Within." That's a pity. It's an uncommonly good film.

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