Dead Men Tell No Tales (1938 film) explained

Dead Men Tell No Tales
Producer:	John Corfield
Music:	W.L. Trytel
Cinematography:	Bryan Langley
Editing:	James Corbett
Studio:	British National Films
Distributor:	Associated British Film Distributors
Runtime:	70 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom

Dead Men Tell No Tales is a 1938 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Emlyn Williams, Sara Seegar and Hugh Williams.^[1] It is based on the 1935 novel The Norwich Victims by Francis Beeding.^[2] The film was made at Welwyn Studios.^[3]

Plot

An English schoolteacher wins a French lottery, but on her way to Paris she is murdered and an imposter attempts to claim her prize.

Cast

• Emlyn Williams as Dr. Headlam
• Sara Seegar as Marjorie
• Hugh Williams as Detective Inspector Martin
• Marius Goring as Greening
• Lesley Brook as Elizabeth Orme
• Christine Silver as Miss Haslett
• Clive Morton as Frank Fielding
• Ann Wilton as Bridget
• Jack Vyvian as Crump
• Marjorie Dale as The Singer
• Hal Gordon as Sergeant

References

1. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (1938) . https://web.archive.org/web/20090114020215/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/30885 . dead . 2009-01-14 . Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk . 2009-04-16 . 2014-03-13.
2. Goble p.32
3. Wood p.94

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 2011.
• Shafer, Stephen C. British popular films, 1929-1939: the cinema of reassurance. Routledge, 1997.