The Body Vanished

Oct 27, 1939

0h 46m

★ 6.0

Overview

A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Worton Hall Studios

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Cast

Rodney Paine

Anthony Hulme

Pip Piper

C. Denier Warren

Sgt. Hopkins

Ernest Sefton

Miss Casson (as Eve Foster)

Evelyn Foster

Hobbleberry

Frank Atkinson

Cuthbert Snelling

Wilfred Noy

Capt. Hallam

Hamilton Keene

Auctioneer

Cyril Chamberlain

Mr. Williams

Frederick Keen

Mr. Briggs

Charles Paton

George Billings

Fred Withers

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