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The Flying Fool is a British film of genre Drama directed by Walter Summers with Marie Prevost
The Flying Fool (1931)
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Add to a movie listThe Flying Fool is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Summers and starring Henry Kendall, Benita Hume and Wallace Geoffrey.
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Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentlemen's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe. Marlowe succeeds in doping Floyd and taking him to his underground hideout beneath a Parisian back-alley nightclub.Actors
Marie Prevost
Henry Kendall
(Vincent Floyd)
Benita Hume
(Marion Lee)
Ursula Jeans
(Morella Arlen)
Martin Walker
(Jim Lancer)
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