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The Trojan Brothers (1946)

The Trojan Brothers poster
Directed by
Maclean Rogers
Genre
comedy, drama
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of performers in a theater troupe get mixed up in a murder mystery. The police investigate a killing that takes place during a stage show.

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What happens

The Trojan Brothers (also known as Murder in the Footlights) is a 1946 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Patricia Burke, David Farrar and Bobby Howes. It was written by Irwin Reiner and Rogers adapted from the 1944 novel of the same title by Pamela Hansford Johnson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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