The Body Vanished

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The Body Vanished
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Opening titles
Directed by Walter Tennyson
Written byIan Walker
Starring
Cinematography Desmond Dickinson
Edited byEtta Simpson
Production
company
Venture Films
Distributed byNew Realm Pictures
Release date
  • 1939 (1939)
Running time
46 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Body Vanished (first shown as The Body Vanishes[ citation needed ]) is a 1939 British second feature ('B') [1] crime comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson and starring Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren, and Ernest Sefton. [2] It was written by Ian Walker and was made at Isleworth Studios as a quota quickie. [3]

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Release

According to David Quinlan In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959, the film was not on general release. [4] However the BFI states that it was copyrighted in 1939 but "not released until 1942", [2] which Chibnall and McFarlane, confirm, [1] and Kine Weekly listed the film on its "Films Registered Under The Act" page for the period 20 November 1942 – 11 January 1943. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 11. ISBN   978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. 1 2 "The Body Vanished". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  3. ↑ Wood, Linda (1986). British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute.
  4. ↑ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 42. ISBN   0-7134-1874-5.
  5. ↑ "Films Registered Under The Act" . Kine Weekly . 311 (1866): 45. 21 January 1943. ProQuest   2676985848 – via ProQuest.


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