Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1939
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Genre
Thriller
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Synopsis
"Shorty" Matthews, recently released from prison, goes to visit a female friend, Alice, only to find her in bed strangled. Panicking, he runs from the house, but not before he is spotted by the landlady. Being an ex-prisoner, he is convinced that the police will not believe that he simply found her, and he flees London. He hitches a lift with a truck driver and heads north, but the police are on his trail. Shorty therefore returns to London where he thinks he will be safer. With the help of dance hall hostess Molly, another friend and former co-worker of Alice's, Shorty sets out to find the real killer himself, believing that he must have been one of Alice's customers at the dance hall.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Albert Owen "Shorty" Matthews
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Molly O'Neil
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Wally
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Walter Hoover
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landlady
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Charlie, café proprietor
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Murray
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bus conductor
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Mrs Wally
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Detective Pryor
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Marge
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Pauline
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[police detective at billiard hall]
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[flowerseller]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
Production:
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Presents
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Executive Producer
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Studio
Writing:
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Screenplay and Dialogue
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Screenplay and Dialogue
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Screenplay and Dialogue
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Based on the novel by
Photography:
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Photography
Basil Emmott (uncredited)
Editing:
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Editor
Leslie Norman (uncredited)
Design:
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Art Director
Peter Proud (uncredited)
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Art Director
Michael Relph (uncredited)
Music:
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Music Director
Sound:
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Sound
Leslie Murray (uncredited)
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Sound
H.C. Pearson (uncredited)
Consultant:
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Dialogue Director
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