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The weapon, Periclean Productions ; Irving H. Levin presents ; screenplay by Fred Freiberger ; produced by Hal E. Chester ; directed by Val Guest

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The weapon

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Periclean Productions ; Irving H. Levin presents ; screenplay by Fred Freiberger ; produced by Hal E. Chester ; directed by Val Guest

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When a young boy accidentally shoots a playmate with a pistol found in the rubble of a bombed-out building, he runs away from home and wanders the streets of postwar England. Ballistic analysis connects the weapon to the unsolved murder of a military officer ten years earlier. A gruff American captain, Mark Andrews, attempts to track down the missing gun and appease the boy's anxious mother

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