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Twelve Good Men (1936)

Twelve Good Men poster
Directed by
Ralph Ince
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 04m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A detective investigates a series of murders in London. He works to uncover the killer before more people die.

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What happens

Twelve Good Men (also known as 12 Good Men) is a lost 1936 British crime film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Henry Kendall, Nancy O'Neil and Joyce Kennedy. It was written by Sidney Gilliat| and Frank Launder based on the 1928 detective novel The Murders in Praed Street by John Rhode, with the principal series character of the book Doctor Priestley eliminated for the film. It was made at Teddington Studios by Warner Brothers as a quota quickie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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