80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects
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Directed byVal Guest
Written byVal Guest
Based onPillars of Midnight by Elleston Trevor
Produced byVal Guest
StarringClaire Bloom
Richard Johnson
Yolande Donlan
Cyril Cusack
CinematographyArthur Grant
Edited byBill Lenny
Music byStanley Black
Production
company
Val Guest Productions
Distributed byThe Rank Organisation
Release date
  • 15 August 1963 (1963-08-15) (London)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

80,000 Suspects is a 1963 British drama film directed by Val Guest and starring Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan and Cyril Cusack. It is based on the 1957 novel Pillars of Midnight by Elleston Trevor.[1] An outbreak of smallpox in Bath, England leads to a race to contain the virus.[2]

The film was not released in the United States.

  1. ^ "80,000 Suspects". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  2. ^ Fowler, Roy (1988). "Interview with Val Guest". British Entertainment History Project.