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Crime on the Hill

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Crime on the Hill
Directed byBernard Vorhaus
Written byBernard Vorhaus
E.M. Delafield
Vera Allison
Michael Hankinson
Based onCrime on the Hill
play
by Jack De Leon and Jack Celestin
StarringSally Blane
Nigel Playfair
Lewis Casson
CinematographyClaude Friese-Greene
Edited byWalter Stokvis
Production
company
Release date
  • 1 December 1933 (1933-12-01)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Crime on the Hill is a 1933 British mystery film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Sally Blane, Nigel Playfair and Lewis Casson.[1] The plot was based on a successful play by Jack de Leon and Jack Celestin.[2] It was made by British International Pictures at Welwyn Studios in autumn 1933.[3]

Plot

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A man tries to clear the name of his uncle who is wrongly convicted of a murdering the squire in a picturesque English village.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Richards p.189
  3. ^ Richards p.188

Bibliography

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  • Richards, Jeffrey (ed.) The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929-1939. I.B. Tauris, 1998.
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