A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
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Silent Dust (1949) - Rawley works out the mystery
In this scene from the 1949 film Silent Dust Rawley (Stephen Murray) thinks the mystery of the evening through in his mind and carefully works out the truth ...
Silent Dust (1949) Non-filter Cigarette
Sally Grey and Beatrice Campbell smoking.
Silent Dust (1949) - Simon Rawley's flashback sequence
In this scene Simon Rawley (Nigel Patrick) believed to have been killed in the war tells his stepmother Joan (Beatrice Campbell) how he survived and deserted ...
Silent Dust (1949) - Simon Rawley returns
In this noirish sequence from Lance Comfort's 'Silent Dust' Simon Rawley (Nigel Patrick) who is believed to have died in the war three years earlier returns to ...
Popular movie trailers from 1949
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A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words he would like to use to ask for the hand of the daughter of the jeweler Carlo Casertoni, but while he mulls over the sentences he should pronounce to his future father-in-law he comes across a strange individual who could be a bringer of bad luck: a jettatore.
The Jewel Land Company of Elko, Texas is selling Government land to settlers. Before any of the settlers can claim their land, they are being killed by McCabe's gang.
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work.
