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The Witness Vanishes

6.7 66 mins Action   Adventure   Crime   Mystery   Romance   1939
Universal Pictures  
Director(s): Otis Garrett

In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.

Casts of The Witness Vanishes

Edmund Lowe

as Mark Peters

Wendy Barrie

as Joan Marplay

Bruce Lester

as Lord Noel Stratton

Forrester Harvey

as Allistair McNab

Walter Kingsford

as Amos Craven

J.M. Kerrigan

as Flinters

Barlowe Borland

as Lucus Marplay

Boyd Irwin

as Sinclair Ellis

Vernon Steele

as Nigel Partridge

Reginald Barlow

as Sir John Digby

Leyland Hodgson

as Dade

Robert Noble

as Inspector Wren

Phyllis Barry

as Miss Carson (uncredited)

Wilson Benge

as Bradley the Butler (uncredited)

Hal E. Chester

as Copy Boy (uncredited)

Herbert Evans

as Kirby the Assistant Editor (uncredited)

Denis Greene

as Leets (uncredited)

Anne Nagel

as Laura the Secretary (uncredited)

Alexander Pollard

as Eddie the Sanitorium Attendant (uncredited)

John Rogers

as Printer (uncredited)

Michael Vallon

as Wilkes the Editor (uncredited)

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