The Missing People

The Missing People
U.S. 1-sheet poster
Directed byJack Raymond
Written byLydia Hayward
Based onThe Missing People by Edgar Wallace
Produced byCharles Q. Steel
StarringWill Fyffe
Kay Walsh
Lyn Harding
CinematographyGeorge Stretton
Music byPercival Mackey
Production
company
Jack Raymond Productions
Distributed byGrand National Pictures (UK)
Release date
  • 13 January 1940 (1940-01-13) (UK)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Missing People is a 1940 British mystery film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh and Lyn Harding. Fyfe appears as J. G. Reeder, a character created by Edgar Wallace who works as an investigator for the Department of Public Prosecutions.[1][2] The film is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. Fyffe, Walsh and Raymond were involved in another Mr. Reeder film The Mind of Mr. Reeder released the previous year.[3] It was shot at Highbury Studios in London.

  1. ^ "The Missing People (1940)". IMDb. 6 November 1940.
  2. ^ "The Missing People". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.
  3. ^ Hardy p.342