The Witness Vanishes
The Witness Vanishes
Release: 1939-09-22
·Runtime: 66m
·★ 6.2
Action
Adventure
Crime
Mystery
Romance
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
Cast
Wendy Barrie
as Joan Marplay
Forrester Harvey
as Allistair McNab
Herbert Evans
as Kirby the Assistant Editor (uncredited)
Michael Vallon
as Wilkes the Editor (uncredited)
Edmund Lowe
as Mark Peters
Bruce Lester
as Lord Noel Stratton
Barlowe Borland
as Lucus Marplay
Boyd Irwin
as Sinclair Ellis
Denis Greene
as Leets (uncredited)
Walter Kingsford
as Amos Craven
J.M. Kerrigan
as Flinters
Vernon Steele
as Nigel Partridge
Phyllis Barry
as Miss Carson (uncredited)
Anne Nagel
as Laura the Secretary (uncredited)
Reginald Barlow
as Sir John Digby
Leyland Hodgson
as Dade
