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A man is wrongly accused of a series of killings, leaving him to hunt the real murderer.
| The Ticket of Leave Man | |
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| Directed by | George King |
| Written by | H. F. Maltby (writer) A.R. Rawlinson (writer) |
| Starring | See below |
| Cinematography | Hone Glendinning |
| Edited by | Robert Walters |
| Music by | Jack Beaver |
Release date |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Ticket of Leave Man is a 1937 British thriller film directed by George King and starring Tod Slaughter, John Warwick and Marjorie Taylor. [1] It was based on The Ticket-of-Leave Man , an 1863 melodrama by Tom Taylor which introduced the character Hawkshaw the Detective. It takes its name from the Ticket of leave which was issued to convicts when they were released.
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A man is wrongly accused of a series of killings, leaving him to hunt the real murderer.
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Hawkshaw the Detective was a comic strip character featured in an eponymous cartoon serial by Gus Mager from February 23, 1913, to November 12, 1922, and again from December 13, 1931, to 1952. The name of Mager's character was derived from the common American slang of the time, in which a hawkshaw meant a detective—that slang itself derived from playwright Tom Taylor's use of the name for the detective in his 1863 stage play The Ticket of Leave Man.
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