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Checkmate is a 1935 Ariston Films Limited British crime film directed by George Pearson at Boreham Wood Studios and starring Maurice Evans, Felix Aylmer and Evelyn Foster. It was based on a novel by Amy Kennedy Gould.
Checkmate: Directed by George Pearson. With Felix Aylmer, Evelyn Foster, Sally Gray, Maurice Evans. An under-cover detective lodges with a family as he tries to foil a gang of jewellery thieves.
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- Crime
- George Pearson
- 1936-03-09
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.
A Scotland Yard detective gets more than he bargained with a gang of London jewel thieves in this British crime drama directed by George Pearson. Maurice Evans plays the role of Phillip Allen, a Scotland Yard detective who has arrived in London to hunt down a group of jewel thieves.
- George Pearson
- British & Dominions Film Corporation
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An under-cover detective lodges with a family as he tries to foil a gang of jewellery thieves.
