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Directed by
  
Claude Autant-Lara

Music by
  
John Reynders

Director
  
Claude Autant-Lara

Story by
  
Jenaro Prieto

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Produced by
  
Claude Autant-Lara

Production company
  
Oxford Films

Music director
  
John Reynders

Written by
  
Jenaro Prieto (novel) Jacques Prévert Cecil Madden

Starring
  
Henry Kendall Kathleen Kelly Alastair Sim

Initial release
  
January 1940 (United Kingdom)

Screenplay
  
Jacques Prévert, Cecil Madden

Cast
  
Alastair Sim, Henry Kendall, Kathleen Kelly, A Bromley Davenport, Guy Middleton

Similar
  
The Man in the Mirror, Bourbon Street Blues, Gangway, Troubled Waters, Lettres d'amour

The Mysterious Mr. Davis is a 1939 British comedy drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Henry Kendall, Kathleen Kelly and Alastair Sim. It was made as a quota quickie and distributed by the American company RKO Pictures. It was based on the novel The Partner by Jenaro Prieto and was released the same year as an Italian adaptation The Silent Partner.

Cast

  • Henry Kendall as Julian Roscoe
  • Kathleen Kelly as Audrey Roscoe
  • Richard Gofe as Teddy Roscoe
  • Alastair Sim as Theodore F. Wilcox - the Lunatic
  • Morris Harvey as Cecil Goldenburg
  • Jeanne Stuart as Anita Goldenberg
  • A. Bromley Davenport as Lord Avonmouth
  • Guy Middleton as Milton
  • Quentin McPhearson as The Landlord
  • Ben Field as The Decorator
  • Fred Duprez as Wilcox
  • Alfred Wellesley as The Pawnbroker
  • Ethel Griffies as Mabel Wilcox
  • May Hallatt as Telegraph Clerk

    • References

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