Blackout (1954)



While down-and-out American Casey Morrow is quietly getting drunk in a London nightclub, a beautiful blonde approaches him and offers to buy him a drink. After Casey tells her that he is broke, they leave the club together and she offers him five hundred pounds to marry her. He quickly agrees but the next morning, he wakes up in artist Maggie Doone’s studio unable to remember what happened after he and the woman left the club. On the street, he sees a newspaper headline stating that Darius Brunner has been murdered and that his heiress daughter, Phyllis, is missing. A photograph of the daughter reveals that she was the woman Casey may have married the night before.

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20 Replies to “Blackout (1954)”

  1. Great film,any chance of uploading/do you own the rights to any of the short films?Danger List,Man on the Beach ,Death in High Heels etc.Thanks,I'd be interested to know either way.

  2. 29 minutes in – I didn't know there were electric kettles.  learn some thin' new every day…

    he still shouldn't marry her, be cause at the beginning, she pretty much threatened him in to helping her with that smug smile of hers.  I wouldn't marry some one who behaved that way to me.

  3. Poor old Belinda Lee, drop-dead gorgeous and dead by the age of 26, tragic. The only thing that would improve this great little film would be to watch it from the circle of my favourite ODEON cinema, long since confined to dust and rubble. Thanks for uploading.

  4. Thanx for this classic of the genre. Quaint! Will keeping get better with the presage of time. Michael Carreras had already got his act together before Executive Films became Hammer Films. They really did the best they could with very few pennies by Hollywood standards.

  5. what a superb black  rubber lined hooded satin mackintosh  being worn after 29  minutes.   pity   it wasn't  being worn in the rain.  without the  brolly

  6. I hate it that YouTube delete supposed copyright infringements and leave no information but – Deleted- I can never remember what was lost or missed, and it makes it difficult to be able to quickly re-offend without knowing details. Arsenholes.

  7. This is a really enjoyable film, with hints of Raymond Chandler dry humour, never seen it before, great leads & Eleanor Summerfiled alway a pleasure to watch, thank you!

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