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The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson

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The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson is a 1947 British crime film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Anthony Hulme, Lesley Osmond and Frank Hawkins.[1] The screenplay concerns the beneficiary of a lucrative inheritance, who is found dead by a solicitor's clerk.

Synopsis

When a will messenger visits the house of a beneficiary to deliver the news of the large sum that he is to inherit, he finds the beneficiary murdered in his home. The messenger sets out on a private hunt for the murderer, and ultimately attempts to find evidence proving the innocence of a burglar who looks like the killer and had entered the building before the murder.[2]

Cast

  • Anthony Hulme - Nicholson / Raeburn
  • Lesley Osmond - Peggy Dundas
  • Frank Hawkins - Inspector Morley
  • Andrew Laurence - Waring
  • Douglas Stewart - Seymour
  • George Bishop - Mr Browne
  • Josie Bradley - Freda
  • Ivy Collins - Mrs Barnes

References

  1. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/43617
  2. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/103474/The-Mysterious-Mr-Nicholson/overview


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