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The Missing People is a British film of genre Crime with Patricia Roc
The Missing People (1939)
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Add to a movie listThe Missing People is a 1940 British, black-and-white, mystery film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Ronald Shiner as Sam Hackett and Will Fyffe as Mr. J. G. Reeder. It was produced by Jack Raymond Productions. Ronald Shiner, Will Fyffe and Jack Raymond were also all involved in another Mr. Reeder film, The Mind of Mr. Reeder. The film is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace.
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Mr. Reeder (comedian Will Fyffe) begins solving the disappearance of 27 people, after they had each received large sums of money from their respective families. Is the criminal-featured Joseph Bronstone (Lyn Harding), the guilty party?Actors
Patricia Roc
(Doris Bevan)
Kay Walsh
(Peggy Gillette)
Ronald Shiner
(Sam Hackett)
Ronald Adam
(Surtees)
Reginald Purdell
(Harry Morgan)
Maire O'Neill
(Housekeeper)
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