Rent Dead Men Are Dangerous (1939)
2.9 of 5 from 47 ratings
1h 6min
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- Synopsis:
- In an early lead role, Robert Newton stars in a compelling murder melodrama charting a struggling novelist's desperate bid to start life anew - in a dead man's clothes...Aylmer Franklyn (Robert Newton), an unsuccessful writer saddled with debts, seizes the chance to change his identity after discovering a corpse under a fallen branch. Faking his own death, he swaps his clothes for those of the dead man, and even attends his own inquest. But what follows makes him only too happy to resume his own identity...
- Actors:
- Robert Newton, Betty Lynne, Peter Gawthorne, John Warwick, Merle Tottenham, John Turnbull, Aubrey Mallalieu, Kynaston Reeves, Winifred Oughton, Ballard Berkeley, Cyril Chamberlain, Charles Mortimer, John Salew, Anita Sharp-Bolster
- Directors:
- Harold French
- Producers:
- Warwick Ward
- Writers:
- H.C. Armstrong, Vernon Clancey, Harry Hughes, Victor Kendall
- Aka:
- Dangerous Masquerade
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1939
