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Doctor Syn is a British film of genre Drama directed by Roy William Neill released in USA on 14 november 1937 with George Arliss
Doctor Syn (1937)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 14 november 1937
Length 1h18
Directed by Roy William Neill
OriginUnited-kingdom
Rating61%
Doctor Syn is a 1937 British, black-and-white, adventure, drama historical film, directed by Roy William Neill for Gainsborough Pictures and starring George Arliss (in his last feature film), Margaret Lockwood, Graham Moffatt and Ronald Shiner. It was produced by Gainsborough Pictures. The film is based on the Doctor Syn novels of Russell Thorndike, set in 18th century Kent. The character of Syn and the events at the film's climax were both softened considerably in comparison to Thorndike's original story.
Synopsis
Led by Captain Collyer (Roy Emerton), a detachment of Royal Navy tax and revenue officers arrive in the village of Dymchurch on Romney Marsh. The area is notorious for liquor-smuggling and they are on the trail of the culprits. They find a village of apparently honest, pious and simple folk, looked after benevolently by their philanthropic vicar Doctor Syn (Arliss). However Syn is in fact the leader of the smugglers of the parish, using his cover as a man of the cloth to run a profitable ring whose dividends are used to better the lives of the local community. Collyer gradually comes to suspect what is going on, and a series of chases and confrontations takes place across the marshes with Syn and the smugglers always managing narrowly to outwit their pursuers. Collyer finally discovers that Syn is in fact none other than the notorious pirate Captain Clegg, thought to have been executed many years earlier. Still one step ahead, Syn destroys all incriminating evidence and he and his men make their escape.Actors
George Arliss
(Dr Syn)
Margaret Lockwood
(Imogene Clegg)
John Loder
(Denis Cobtree)
Roy Emerton
(Capt. Howard Collyer, R.N.)
Graham Moffatt
(Jerry Jerk)
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