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Dangerous Medicine is a British film of genre Drama directed by Arthur B. Woods with Elizabeth Allan

Dangerous Medicine (1938)

Dangerous Medicine
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Length 1h12
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Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime

Dangerous Medicine is a 1938 British crime film, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Elizabeth Allan and Cyril Ritchard. It is now classed as a lost film.

Synopsis

Secretary Victoria Ainswell (Allan) marries her wealthy elderly boss. Soon after the wedding he dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances, and the autopsy reveals that the police have a murderer on their hands. Everything points to Victoria as the only person with means, opportunity and motive, and as she can provide no sensible explanation as to who else could have killed her husband, she is arrested and put on trial for murder.

Actors

Elizabeth Allan

(Victoria Ainswell)Cyril Ritchard

(Dr. Noel Penwood)Edmund Breon

(Totsie Mainwaring)Aubrey Mallalieu

(Judge)Basil Gill

(Sir Francis)
And :
Leo Genn
Gordon McLeod
Allan Jeayes
Frederick Burtwell
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