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Checkmate (1935)

4.7 | Sep 26, 1935 (US) | Crime | 01:07

A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.

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Felix Aylmer
Henry Nicholls
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Evelyn Foster
Mary Nicholls
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Maurice Evans
Phillip Allen
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Sally Gray
Jean Nicholls
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Donald Wolfit
Jack Barton
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Wilfrid Caithness
Inspector Smith
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Percy Walsh
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Ernest Jay
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CinemaSerf
5 | Jun 19, 2022
Much better than the average crime caper, this one, and it is odd - and refreshing - to see Donald Wolfit out of his more theatrical guise. An undercover policeman takes up lodgings with a family suspected of involvement in series of jewellery heists. The father "Henry" (Felix Aylmer) is immediately suspicious as he ingratiates himself with one of his daughters and we play a cat-and-mouse game as it appears almost everyone is implicated. It's short and sweet with good performances holding it together.