''Suspected Person'' is a 1942 British

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directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Clifford Evans,

Patricia Roc Patricia Roc (born Felicia Miriam Ursula Herold; 7 June 1915 – 30 December 2003) was an English film actress, popular in the Gainsborough melodramas such as '' Madonna of the Seven Moons'' (1945) and ''The Wicked Lady'' (1945), though she only ...

and David Farrar. The film was made at Welwyn Studios by

Associated British Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production, distribution and exhibition company active from 1927 until 1970 when it was absorbed into EMI. ABPC also owned appro ...

, one of the two leading British studios of the era. It was released in the United States in 1944 by

Producers Releasing Corporation Producers Releasing Corporation was the smallest and least prestigious of the Hollywood film studios of the 1940s. It was considered a prime example of what was called "Poverty Row": a low-rent stretch of Gower Street in Hollywood where shoestr ...

.Slide p.179

Synopsis

A British associate of some American gangsters double-crosses them following a

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and escapes with the loot. He heads to

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where his sister keeps a boarding house. She is unaware of his criminal career, but becomes suspicious when both Scotland Yard and his former associates both turn up on his trail.

Cast

* Clifford Evans as Jim Raynor *

as Joan Raynor * David Farrar as Inspector Thompson *

Anne Firth Anne Heather Firth (1 August 191816 January 1961) was a British film actress.Chapman p.157 She appeared in several leading roles in films of the 1940s. She also worked on the West End stage, appearing in the 1937 play ''Bonnet Over the Windmil ...

as Carol *

Robert Beatty Robert Rutherford Beatty (19 October 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the UK. Early years Beatty was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son o ...

as Franklin *

Eric Clavering Eric Clavering (1901–1989) was a British-born actor who spent much of his career in Canada. He played supporting roles in a number of British films during the Second World War. He later moved to Canada, and had a recurring role on the Canadi ...

as Dolan * Leslie Perrins as Tony Garrett *

Eliot Makeham Harold Elliott Makeham (22 December 1882 – 8 February 1956) was an English film and television actor. Career Makeham was born in London, England. Between 1931 and 1956, Makeham appeared, primarily in character roles, in 115 films and i ...

as Davis * John Salew as Jones *

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as Saunders * Martin Benson * Terry Conlin * Anthony Shaw

References

Bibliography

Slide, Anthony Anthony Slide (born 7 November 1944) is an English writer who has produced more than seventy books and edited a further 150 on the history of popular entertainment. He wrote a "letter from Hollywood" for the British ''Film Review'' magazine from ...

. ''Banned in the U.S.A.: British Films in the United States and Their Censorship, 1933-1966''. I.B.Tauris, 1998.

External links

* 1942 films British thriller films British black-and-white films 1940s thriller films Films directed by Lawrence Huntington Films set in London Films set in Liverpool Films shot at Welwyn Studios 1940s English-language films 1940s British films {{1940s-thriller-film-stub