Bouncy beginning on Swiss slopes as parents Leslie Banks and Edna Best lose daughter Nova Pilbeam to foreign agents led by Peter Lorre.
Much wit and style in evidence: humour of early scenes; early POV stuff; dentist (and unfortunate sidekick); collecting guns on church plate; messy, casualty-ridden siege; early use of recurrent vertigo theme; crackshot wife; silent Albert Hall scene.
With Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield, Pierre Fresnay.
Written by Charles Bennett & D.B. Wyndham-Lewis, sets by Alfred Junge, shot by Curt Courant (father of Willy Kurant, shot 133 films from 1917).
Last seen almost exactly four years ago, 17 August 2011.
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