Line Engaged
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| director = Bernard Mainwaring
| producer = Herbert Smith
| writer = Bernard Mainwaring (screenplay)
Jack Celestin (play)
Jack DeLeon (play)
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| studio = British Lion Films
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| released = {{Film date|1935|11}}
| runtime = 68 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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Line Engaged is a 1935 British, black-and-white, thriller directed by Bernard Mainwaring and starring Bramwell Fletcher, Jane Baxter and Arthur Wontner.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/63376|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113212555/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/63376|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-13|title=Line Engaged (1936)|publisher=}} It was produced by British Lion Film Corporation.
Plot
Eva Rutland (played by Jane Baxter), the wife of caddish Gordon (Leslie Perrins), is in love with David Morland (Bramwell Fletcher), a successful novelist. David's father, an Inspector (Arthur Wontner) gives his son a cast iron murder plot. Later, when Gordon is shot, it seems David has fulfilled his father's hypothetical musings.
Cast
- Bramwell Fletcher as David Morland
- Jane Baxter as Eva Rutland
- Arthur Wontner as Insp. Morland
- Mary Clare as Mrs. Gardner
- Leslie Perrins as Gordon Rutland
- George Merritt as Sgt. Thomas
- Kathleen Harrison as Maid
- John Turnbull as Supt. Harrison
- Coral Browne as Doreen
- Ronald Shiner as Ryan
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160729224512/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6be5add9 Line Engaged] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
- {{IMDb title|0128310}}
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Category:British black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Bernard Mainwaring
Category:British thriller films
Category:British Lion Films films
Category:Films produced by Herbert Smith (producer)
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:English-language thriller films
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