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Line Engaged (1935)

Line Engaged poster
Directed by
Bernard Mainwaring
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is blackmailed and a murder investigation follows. The story involves phone calls and mistaken identities.

suspensefulold-fashionedtensefast-pacedmysteriousmodestbriskstagey

What happens

Line Engaged is a 1935 British black-and-white thriller film directed by Bernard Mainwaring and starring Bramwell Fletcher, Jane Baxter and Arthur Wontner. It was written by Mainwaring based on the 1934 play by Jack Celestin and Jack De Leon, and was produced by British Lion Film Corporation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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