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The Safecracker is a 1958 British crime film noir directed by Ray Milland and starring Milland, Barry Jones and Victor Maddern.
A British safe cracker goes to prison but when World War II starts he's recruited by army intelligence and is sent to German-occupied Belgium to crack the safe of a German Abwehr unit located in a chateau.
Jan 24, 2011 · Safecracker, The - (Original Trailer) Actor Ray Milland directs himself in The Safecracker (1958) as a reformed burglar who calls on his criminal skills to aid the war effort.
In England, safe-cracking expert Colley Dawson (Ray Milland) chafes about working for a security firm that pays him a pittance and gets involved in the lucrative activity of breaking into...
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The Safecracker (1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Ray Milland's third turn behind the camera is this curiosity about a reserved man who by day lives with his mother and by night is an expert safecracker. Set at the outset of WWII, Milland is offered a reduced sentence if he can retrieve a list of Nazi spies operating in England.
In 'The Safecracker', Milland plays Colley Dawson, a locksmith in pre-World War II London, who specializes in making safes burglar-proof for his well-to-do employers. The movie is divided into two distinct halves.
