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Hidden Homicide

Hidden Homicide

Murder Wears Three Masks !!!

1959•1h 10m•5.1/10
MysteryCrime

Ratings

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5.1/10(10)

A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.

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Production

Bill and Michael Luckwell Ltd.

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Griffith Jones

Griffith Jones

Michael Cornforth

Patricia Laffan

Patricia Laffan

Jean Gilson

James Kenney

James Kenney

Oswald Castellan

Bruce Seton

Bruce Seton

Bill Dodd

Peter Carver

Wally Gizzard

Danny Green

Danny Green

Cliff Darby

Charles Farrell

Charles Farrell

Mungo Peddy

Richard Shaw

Wright

Robert Raglan

Ashbury

Maya Koumani

Marian Savage

Norman Wynne

The Innkeeper

Frank Hawkins

Ben Leacock

Joe Wadham

Marshall

Jan Wilson

Porter

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