The Witness Vanishes
Seen it?1939 | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Right up the alley of fans of a good revenge story and anyone who loves watching the truth get chased down. A revenge story, so expect the pressure to build to a reckoning. It's about the digging, and what it costs to get the story.
- The mood
- Tense, gritty.
- The pace
- Wastes no time getting going, at 1 hr 6 min. Done before bedtime.
- What might put you off
- Made in 1939: an older pace and style.
- Skip it if you prefer quiet, talky stories.
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 1K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Otis Garrett
- Edmund LoweMark Peters
- Wendy BarrieJoan Marplay
- Bruce LesterLord Noel Stratton
- Forrester HarveyAllistair McNab
- Walter KingsfordAmos Craven
- J.M. KerriganFlinters
- Barlowe BorlandLucus Marplay
- Boyd IrwinSinclair Ellis
- Vernon SteeleNigel Partridge
- Reginald BarlowSir John Digby