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The Weapon (1956 film)

British thriller by Val Guest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Weapon is a 1956 British crime thriller film directed by Val Guest and starring Steve Cochran, Lizabeth Scott, Herbert Marshall, and Nicole Maurey. It was made by Republic Pictures.

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“The Weapon (1956 film)” enters the record as british thriller by Val Guest. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Weapon, film and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Weapon (1956 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.