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Director
  
Vernon Sewell

Music director
  
Eric Spear

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.2/10
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Genre
  
Crime, Drama

Story by
  
Nicolas Bentley

Country
  
United Kingdom

The Floating Dutchman movie poster

Release date
  
1952

Based on
  
a novel by Nicolas Bentley

Writer
  
Nicolas Bentley (novel), Vernon Sewell

Cast
  
Dermot Walsh
,
Sydney Tafler
,
Mary Germaine
,
Guy Verney

Similar movies
  
Related Vernon Sewell movies

The Floating Dutchman is a 1952 British crime film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Dermot Walsh, Sydney Tafler and Mary Germaine. It was known as 'Clue for a Corpse' on U.S. TV. The film was an early product of Merton Park Studios, a British company best known for its Edgar Wallace Mysteries of the 1960s. Its plot involves Dermot Walsh as a Scotland Yard detective who goes undercover amongst jewel thieves after a dead Dutchman is found floating in the river. It is based on a novel by Nicholas Bentley.

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Cast

  • Dermot Walsh ... Alexander James
  • Sydney Tafler ... Victor Skinner
  • Mary Germaine ... Rose Reid
  • Guy Verney ... Snow White
  • Hugh Morton ... Inspector Cathie
  • James Raglan ... Mr. Wynn
  • Nicholas Bentley ... Collis
  • Arnold MarlĂ© ... Otto
  • Derek Blomfield ... Philip Reid

    • Critical reception

  • TV Guide called the film a "below average crime drama."
  • BFI Screenonline noted the film began, "with an opening sequence that anticipates Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972)."

    • References

    The Floating Dutchman Wikipedia
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    The Floating Dutchman IMDb The Floating Dutchman themoviedb.org