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The Blue Peter is a British film of genre Adventure with Matheson Lang
The Blue Peter (1928)
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Add to a movie listThe Blue Peter is a 1928 British silent adventure film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Matheson Lang, Gladys Frazin and Mary Dibley. The film was based on the 1925 play The Blue Peter by E. Temple Thurston.
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After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama.Actors
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