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The Perfect Flaw is a 1934 British crime film directed by H. Manning Haynes and starring Naomi Waters, Ralph Truman and William Hartnell. [1] The screenplay concerns a clerk who is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.

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  1. "The Perfect Flaw (1934)". BFI. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.