

Daybreak
Overview
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
- Production
- Sydney Box Productions, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
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Cast

Ann Todd
Frances "Frankie" Tribe

Eric Portman
Eddie Tribe

Bill Owen
Ron

Maxwell Reed
Olaf Tyson

Edward Rigby
Bill Shackle

Eliot Makeham
Mr. Walter Bigley

Jane Hylton
Doris

Margaret Withers
Mrs.Bigley

John Turnbull
Superintendent

Maurice Denham
Inspector

Milton Rosmer
Governor

Andrew Crawford
Barber shop customer

Garry Marsh
Barber shop customer
Crew
- Director
- Compton Bennett
- Writers
- Sydney Box,Muriel Box
- Producers
- Sydney Box
- Cinematography
- Reginald H. Wyer
- Composer
- Benjamin Frankel
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CinemaSerf
July 9, 2022
I reckon this has to be the best outing for Ann Todd ("Frankie") that I've seen. Here she plays the girlfriend of Eric Portman ("Eddie") who is really a hangman, but who doesn't want her to know so pretends to be a salesman to explain his frequent, and often overnight, absences from their home on a barge he has inherited. It's during one of those absences that she finds herself the focus of the unwarranted attentions of the rather uncouth "Olaf" (Maxwell Reed) and... Compton Bennett has created …