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The Witness Vanishes(1939)
Status: Released
Date: 1939-09-22
67%
3 Votes
Time: 1h 6m
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT VICTIM OF THE DREADED MANIAC!
Overview:
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: The Witness Vanishes
Top 10 Billed Cast
Edmund Lowe
Mark Peters
Wendy Barrie
Joan Marplay
Bruce Lester
Lord Noel Stratton
Forrester Harvey
Allistair McNab
Walter Kingsford
Amos Craven
J.M. Kerrigan
Flinters
Barlowe Borland
Lucus Marplay
Boyd Irwin
Sinclair Ellis
Vernon Steele
Nigel Partridge
Reginald Barlow
Sir John Digby
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Overview
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
Release Date
1939-09-22
Average
6.7
Rating:
3.4 startsTagline
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT VICTIM OF THE DREADED MANIAC!
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