Dead Men are Dangerous

Dead Men are Dangerous
Directed byHarold French
Screenplay by
Based onnovel Hidden by H.C. Armstrong[1]
Produced byWarwick Ward
Starring
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byE. Richards
Music byJohn Reynders (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byPathé Pictures International (UK), StudioCanal (UK)
Release date
  • February 1939 (1939-02) (UK)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Dead Men are Dangerous is a 1939 British noir crime film directed by Harold French and starring Robert Newton, Betty Lynne, John Warwick, and Peter Gawthorne. It was released in the U.S. as Dangerous Masquerade.[2] Its plot concerns an unsuccessful writer who is wrongly accused of a murder.[3]

  1. ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set – The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Reel Streets". www.reelstreets.com.
  3. ^ "Dead Men Are Dangerous (1939)". Archived from the original on 13 January 2009.