Murder Will Out (1939 film)

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Murder Will Out
"Murder Will Out" (1939).jpg
Frederick Burtwell, Crystal Parzik and Jack Hawkins
Directed by Roy William Neill
Written by Austin Melford
Brock Williams
Derek Twist
Story byRoy William Neill
Produced byRoy William Neill
Starring John Loder
Jane Baxter
Jack Hawkins
Production
company
Warner Bros. First National Productions
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
  • August 1939 (1939-08)
[1]
Running time
66 minutes [1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£17,319 [2]
Box office£13,349 [2]

Murder Will Out is a 1939 British crime film directed by Roy William Neill, starring John Loder, Jane Baxter and Jack Hawkins, and released by Warner Brothers. [3]

Contents

The film is classed as "missing, believed lost" and is included on the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films. [1]

Plot summary

A jade collector is given a piece by a friend, but it soon brings trouble on his shoulders.

Cast

Critical reception

TV Guide wrote, "could have been a good film had more effort been placed in developing the plot; as it is, it's almost impossible to figure out what is going on." [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Murder Will Out / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012.
  2. 1 2 Steve Chibnall (2019) Hollywood-on-Thames: the British productions ofWarner Bros. – First National, 1931–1945, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 39:4, pp 687-724, DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2019.1615292 at p 713
  3. "Murder Will Out (1939)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
  4. "Murder Will Out". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016.