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Poison Pen is a British film of genre Drama directed by Paul L. Stein with Flora Robson
Poison Pen (1939)
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Add to a movie listLength 1h19
Directed by Paul L. Stein
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Rating66%
Poison Pen is a 1939 film directed by Paul L. Stein, starring Flora Robson, Reginald Tate and Ann Todd. It was based on the 1937 play by Richard Llewellyn.
Synopsis
The calm of a peaceful English village is shattered when a series of anonymous letters starts being delivered to village homes, containing scurrilous allegations about the recipients and their families. Upstanding and respectable inhabitants find themselves and their loved ones accused in lascivious detail of all manner of moral, sexual and criminal misdeeds. The Reverend Rider (Tate) and his sister Mary (Robson) attempt to defuse the increasing consternation of the villagers by pointing out that the letters should be ignored as the malicious nonsense they are. Their efforts meet with little success, and Rider's daughter Ann (Todd) also becomes a target with lewd accusations being made about her fiancé David (Geoffrey Toone).Actors
Flora Robson
(Mary Rider)
Reginald Tate
(Rev. John Rider)
Ann Todd
(Ann Rider)
Robert Newton
(Sam Hurrin)
Belle Chrystall
(Sucal Hurrin)
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