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Tell No Tales (1939)

Tell No Tales poster
Directed by
Leslie Fenton
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A newspaper editor turns detective after a kidnapping. He pieces together clues and pressures suspects to save the victim before time runs out.

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What happens

Tell No Tales is a 1939 American crime film directed by Leslie Fenton, written by Lionel Houser, and starring Melvyn Douglas, Louise Platt, Gene Lockhart and Douglass Dumbrille. Fenton's feature-film directorial debut, it was released on May 12, 1939, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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