TMDb Rating
6.2/10
4 verified votes
The Witness Vanishes (1939)
ActionAdventureCrimeMysteryRomance
66 min
"WHO WILL BE THE NEXT VICTIM OF THE DREADED MANIAC!"
Plot Summary
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
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Keywords to include
ActionAdventureCrimeMysteryRomanceOtis GarrettEdmund LoweWendy Barrie1939
Director
Otis Garrett
Top Cast
Edmund LoweWendy BarrieBruce LesterForrester HarveyWalter Kingsford
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