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Dead Men Tell No Tales is a 1938 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Emlyn Williams, Sara Seegar and Hugh Williams.[1] It is based on the 1935 novel The Norwich Victims by Francis Beeding.
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Plot
An English schoolteacher wins a French lottery, but on her way to Paris she is murdered and an imposter attempts to claim her prize.
Cast
- Emlyn Williams - Dr. Headlam
- Sara Seegar - Marjorie
- Hugh Williams - Detective Inspector Martin
- Marius Goring - Greening
- Lesley Brook - Elizabeth Orme
- Christine Silver - Miss Haslett
- Clive Morton - Frank Fielding
- Ann Wilton - Bridget
- Jack Vyvian - Crump
- Marjorie Dale - The Singer
- Hal Gordon - Sergeant
References
Bibliography
- Shafer, Stephen C. British popular films, 1929-1939: the cinema of reassurance. Routledge, 1997.
External links
The films of David MacDonald 1930s The Last Curtain (1937) • It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937) • Death Croons the Blues (1937) • Riding High (1937) • Make It Three (1938) • A Spot of Bother (1938) • Meet Mr. Penny (1938) • This Man Is News (1938) • Dead Men Tell No Tales (1939)1940s The Midas Touch (1940) • This Man in Paris (1940) • Spies of the Air (1940) • Law and Disorder (1940) • This England (1941) • The Brothers (1947) • Snowbound (1948) • Good-Time Girl (1948) • The Bad Lord Byron (1949) • Christopher Columbus (1949) • Diamond City (1949)1950s Cairo Road (1950) • The Adventurers (1951) • The Lost Hours (1952) • Tread Softly (1952) • Devil Girl from Mars (1954) • One Just Man (1954) • The Yellow Robe (1954) • Three Cornered Fate (1955) • Final Column (1955) • Triple Blackmail (1955) • Man in Demand (1955) • Alias John Preston (1955) • Small Hotel (1957) • The Moonraker (1958) • A Lady Mislaid (1958)1960s Petticoat Pirates (1961) • The Golden Rabbit (1962)Categories:- 1938 films
- British films
- 1930s thriller films
- English-language films
- Films directed by David MacDonald
- 1930s British film stubs
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