''File 113'' is a 1933 American
pre-Code
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mystery film
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directed by
Chester Franklin
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and starring
Lew Cody
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,
Mary Nolan
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and
June Clyde.
[Pitts p.25] Monsieur Lecoq
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, a
Paris
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ian
detective
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solves a series of crimes. It is based on a story by the nineteenth century French writer
Émile Gaboriau
Émile Gaboriau (9 November 183228 September 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction.
Early life
Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime. He was the son