Return of a Stranger (1937 film)

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Return of a Stranger
Directed by Victor Hanbury
Written by
Produced by John Stafford
Starring
Cinematography James Wilson
Edited by Ralph Thomas
Music by Jack Beaver
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Pictures
Release date
May 1937
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Return of a Stranger is a 1937 British drama film directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Griffith Jones, Rosalyn Boulter, Ellis Jeffries and Athole Stewart. [1] The film was made at Shepperton Studios as a Quota quickie, and was distributed by RKO Pictures to meet the company's annual requirement under the Quota.

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James Martin plans to elope with Carol Wall, the daughter of the wealthy chairman of Wall Chemicals. While in Southampton with her, Martin is wrongly accused of murdering a man and is forced to flee to South Africa. Carol meanwhile marries a wealthy City of London financier. Martin rebuilds his life in South Africa and finishes developing a valuable new chemical formula which he had begun in England. After he is partially disfigured by an explosion in his laboratory, Martin decides to return home to clear his name, confident that he will no longer be recognised. However, Carol's husband quickly begins to suspect that the visiting South African is really Martin and alerts Scotland Yard.

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