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The Ghost Camera

1933·GB
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
ComedyThrillerRomanceMysteryCrime

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.

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Cast

Henry Kendall

Henry Kendall

John Gray

Ida Lupino

Ida Lupino

Mary Elton

V

Victor Stanley

Albert Sims

John Mills

John Mills

Ernest Elton

George Merritt

George Merritt

Police Detective

Felix Aylmer

Felix Aylmer

Coroner

F

Fred Groves

Barnaby Rudd

Charles Paton

Charles Paton

Farmer

T

Tom Shenton

Police Officer

D

Davina Whitehouse

Amelia Wilkinson, the Maid

Crew

Percival Mackey

composer

Ernest Palmer

cinematographer

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon

writer

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