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Lucky Jade (1937)

Lucky Jade poster
Directed by
Walter Summers
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A jade figure gets stolen and a group of bumbling characters try to find it. The film follows a young woman and a man as they get mixed up in the crime.

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What happens

Lucky Jade is a 1937 British comedy crime film directed by Walter Summers and starring Betty Ann Davies, John Warwick and Syd Crossley. It was shot at Welwyn Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Duncan Sutherland. It was a quota quickie released by the British subsidiary of Paramount Pictures (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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