The Body Vanished

The Body Vanished is a 1939 British second feature crime comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson and starring Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren, and Ernest Sefton. It was written by Ian Walker and was made at Isleworth Studios as a quota quickie.

Cast

Anthony Hulme as Rodney Paine
C. Denier Warren as Pip Piper
Ernest Sefton as Sgt. Hopkins
Evelyn Foster as Miss Casson
Frank Atkinson as Hobbleberry
Wilfred Noy as Snelling
Hamilton Keene as Capt. Haller
Cyril Chamberlain as auctioneer
Frederick Keen as Mr. Williams
Charles Paton as Mr. Briggs
Fred Withers as George Billings
Release

According to David Quinlan In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959, the film was not on general release. However the BFI states that it was copyrighted in 1939 but "not released until 1942", which Chibnall and McFarlane, confirm, and Kine Weekly listed the film on its "Films Registered Under The Act" page for the period 20 November 1942 – 11 January 1943.

The Body Vanished

Cast

Release