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'The Silent Witness' is a 1932 American mystery film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Lionel Atwill, Greta Nissen and Helen Mack.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090129155614/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50701 BFI.org] It was adapted from a play by Jack DeLeon and Jack Celestin.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=7082 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:'..The Silent Witness']Goble p.954 The film's sets were designed by the art director Duncan Cramer who worked on many Fox Film productions of the era.

A London courtroom drama in which an Englishman takes the blame for his son who he believes guilty of murdering his lover. The real truth surrounding the case is only revealed by a silent witness.

Cast



* Lionel Atwill as Sir Austin Howard

* Greta Nissen as Nora Selmer

* Weldon Heyburn as Carl Blake

* Helen Mack as Sylvia Pierce

* Bramwell Fletcher as Anthony Howard

* Mary Forbes as Lady Howard

* C. Montague Shaw as Inspector Robbins

* Wyndham Standing as Sir John Lawson, Barrister

* Alan Mowbray as Arthur Drinton

* Herbert Mundin as Henry Hammer

* Billy Bevan as Horace Ward

* Lumsden Hare as Colonel Grayson

References





Bibliography



* Goble, Alan. 'The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film'. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

* Turim, Maureen. 'Flashbacks in Film: Memory & History'. Routledge, 2013.


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