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Troubled Waters (1936)

Troubled Waters poster
Directed by
Albert Parker
Genre
mystery film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
U
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British mystery from the 1930s. People suspect each other after a crime. The story involves a detective trying to sort out the truth.

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What happens

Troubled Waters is a 1936 British mystery film directed by Albert Parker and starring James Mason, Virginia Cherrill, Alastair Sim, Raymond Lovell and Sam Wilkinson. It was written by Gerald Fairlie from a story by W. P. Lipscomb and Reginald Pound. The film was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Fox Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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