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They Came by Night is a film of genre Drama directed by Harry Lachman released in USA on 7 march 1940 with Phyllis Calvert
They Came by Night (1940)
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Add to a movie listThey Came by Night is a 1940 British crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Will Fyffe, Phyllis Calvert and Anthony Hulme. A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
Actors
Phyllis Calvert
(Sally)
Anthony Hulme, born Harry Idris Miller
George Merritt
(Inspector Metcalfe)
Kathleen Harrison
(Mrs. Lightbody)
John Glyn-Jones
(Llewellyn Jones)
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