The Clouded Yellow (1950)

NR11/21/1950Mystery, Thriller1h 35m
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Tense, exciting, unusual !

Overview

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.

Top Billed Cast

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    Jean Simmons

    Sophie Malraux

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    Trevor Howard

    Maj. David Somers

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    Sonia Dresdel

    Jess Fenton

  4. Cast 1

    Barry Jones

    Nicholas Fenton

  5. Cast 1

    Kenneth More

    Willy Shepley

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    Geoffrey Keen

    Police Inspector

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    André Morell

    Secret Service Chief Chubb (as Andre Morell)

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    Michael Brennan

    Police Superintendent

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    Gerard Heinz

    Dr. Karl Cesare

Love is like a butterfly, as soft and gentle as a sigh. The Clouded Yellow is directed by Ralph Thomas and written by Eric Ambler and Janet Green. It stars Trevor Howard, Jean Simmons, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More and Geoffrey Keen. Taut British spy thriller with Hitchcockian flavours, The Clouded Yellow finds David Somers (Howard) as an ex-secret service operative working as a butterfly cataloguer who finds himself neck deep in a murder plot. Set in the North of England, with some good locations to be spotted by the keen of English eye, the story revolves around the murderou...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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