The Witness Vanishes (1939)

7.0/10 66 min Action Adventure Crime Mystery Romance

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.

Cast

Edmund Lowe

Mark Peters

Wendy Barrie

Joan Marplay

Bruce Lester

Lord Noel Stratton

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

Leyland Hodgson

Dade

Phyllis Barry

Miss Carson (uncredited)

Herbert Evans

Kirby the Assistant Editor (uncredited)

Denis Greene

Leets (uncredited)

Anne Nagel

Laura the Secretary (uncredited)

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