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Two Living, One Dead is a British film of genre Drama directed by Anthony Asquith with Patrick McGoohan
Two Living, One Dead (1961)
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Add to a movie listTwo Living, One Dead is a 1961 British-Swedish existentialist thriller film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Patrick McGoohan, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers.
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Erik Berger (McGoohan) is a reticent, socially withdrawn man who has been working for 20 years in the same Post Office in a Swedish town, not socialising with colleagues and interested only in his wife Helen (McKenna) and son. In contrast his workmate Andersson (Travers) is loud and gregarious, seeing himself as the office joker although his treatment of more junior staff sometimes verges on the malicious.Actors
Patrick McGoohan
(Erik Berger)
Virginia McKenna
(Helen Berger)
Bill Travers
(Andersson)
Alf Kjellin
(Rogers)
Noel Willman
(Johnson)
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