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Dead Men Tell No Tales (1938)

Dead Men Tell No Tales poster
Directed by
David MacDonald
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man investigates a string of deaths after a church service. The trail leads him into a world of secrets and danger.

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What happens

Dead Men Tell No Tales is a 1938 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Emlyn Williams, Sara Seegar and Hugh Williams. It was written by Stafford Dickens, Doreen Montgomery, Walter Summers and Emlyn Williams based on the 1935 novel The Norwich Victims by Francis Beeding. The film was made at Welwyn Studios. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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