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Strange Boarders is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Herbert Mason released in USA on 1 august 1938 with Renée Saint-Cyr
Strange Boarders (1938)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 august 1938
Length 1h14
Directed by Herbert Mason
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Spy films
Rating68%
Strange Boarders is a 1938 British comedy thriller film, directed by Herbert Mason for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Tom Walls, Renée Saint-Cyr, Googie Withers and Ronald Adam. The film is an adaptation of the 1934 espionage novel The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent by E. Phillips Oppenheim, and was well received by critics. The Los Angeles Times described it as "a long series of laughs as well as thrills".
Synopsis
A seemingly innocuous and respectable elderly lady is knocked down and critically injured by a bus on a London street. When the police search her handbag to find out her identity, they are astonished to discover a series of top secret military blueprints. The secret service are alerted and arrive at the hospital to question her, but she laughs in their faces before quietly dying.Actors
Renée Saint-Cyr
(Louise Blythe)
Tom Walls
(Tommy Blythe)
Googie Withers
(Elsie)
Ronald Adam
(Barstow)
C.V. France
(Col. Lionel Anstruther)
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