Three Silent Men
5.6 /10 1 Votes
Director Thomas Bentley Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull Country United Kingdom | 5.4/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 7 December 1940 Writer Jack Byrd, Dudley Leslie, E.P. Thorne (novel) Genres Drama, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller Cast Sebastian Shaw (Sir James Quentin), Derrick De Marney (Captain John Mellish), Patricia Roc (Pat Quentin), Arthur Hambling (Ginger Brown), Cameron Hall (Badger Wood), John Turnbull (Inspector Gill)Similar movies Silver Blaze (1937), The Golden Disc (1958), Kill Me Tomorrow (1957), River Beat (1954) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Three Silent Men is a 1940 British crime film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Sebastian Shaw, Derrick De Marney, Patricia Roc and Arthur Hambling. A pacifist surgeon must operate to save the life of the inventor of a deadly weapon of war, and when the inventor dies, the surgeon becomes prime suspect.
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Plot
Pacifist surgeon Sir James Quentin (Sebastian Shaw) operates on Zaroff (Meinhart Maur), the inventor of a lethal weapon to be used against the Allies in the war. When Zaroff is discovered dead from an excess of ether, Quentin is immediately suspected. To clear her father's name, Quentin's daughter Pat (Patricia Roc), and her boyfriend Captain Mellish (Derrick De Marney), search for the real murderer.
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Critical reception
TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars, calling it, "Badly written, though the suspense makes it entertaining."
References
Three Silent Men WikipediaThree Silent Men IMDb Three Silent Men themoviedb.org