(1936) Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Malcom Keen, Nora Swinburne. Brook plays a drunken socialite who crashes his car on a lonely coastal spot where a smuggling operation is underway. The smugglers don’t take kindly to being to discovered and beat the daylights out of him. Later on he stumbles into a relationship with a girl who happens to be the brother of one of the smugglers. At the authorities request, he keeps tabs on his new interest in hopes of getting the lowdown on the smugglers. There are some pretty grim moments with a Tommy gun in this enjoyable Brit thriller. From 35mm.
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