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Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)

Nancy Steele Is Missing! poster
Directed by
George Marshall
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman has been kidnapped. Her father and a detective search for her, but the case becomes tangled in secrets and deception.

tensemysteriousdarkmelancholicslow-burnunsettlinggrimnoir-ish

What happens

Nancy Steele Is Missing! is a 1937 American drama film directed by George Marshall and Otto Preminger and starring Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly and Peter Lorre. It was produced and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. The film's sets were designed by the British art director Hans Peters. It has been described as a precursor to film noir. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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