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The Body Vanished (1939)

The Body Vanished poster
Directed by
Walter Tennyson
Genre
comedy, crime, mystery
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
46 min
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A comedy crime film where a body disappears. The police and other characters try to figure out what happened.

lightheartedcomicalbriskentertainingmysteriousplayfulold-fashioned

What happens

The Body Vanished (first shown as The Body Vanishes) is a 1939 British second feature ('B') crime comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson and starring Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren, and Ernest Sefton. It was written by Ian Walker and was made at Isleworth Studios as a quota quickie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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