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.[1] It was based on a novel by Amy Kennedy Gould.
Plot edit
A Scotland Yard detective hunts down jewel thieves in London, but becomes involved with the daughter of the gang's boss.
Cast edit
- Maurice Evans as Phillip Allen
- Felix Aylmer as Henry Nicholls
- Evelyn Foster as Mary Nicholls
- Sally Gray as Jean Nicholls
- Donald Wolfit as Jack Barton
- Wilfrid Caithness as Inspector Smith
- Percy Walsh as Mr. Curtail
- Ernest Jay as Huntly
- John Buckmaster as Mike Doyle
References edit
- ^ "Checkmate (1936)". bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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