The Dummy Talks
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The Dummy Talks is a 1943 British crime film
directed by Oswald Mitchell
and starring Jack Warner
, Claude Hulbert
and Beryl Orde.
Crime film
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...
directed by Oswald Mitchell
Oswald Mitchell
Oswald Albert Mitchell was a British film director who directed several of the Old Mother Riley series of films.-Selected filmography:* Such Is the Law * Danny Boy * Old Mother Riley...
and starring Jack Warner
Jack Warner (actor)
Jack Warner OBE was an English film and television actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played until the age of eighty....
, Claude Hulbert
Claude Hulbert
Claude Noel Hulbert was a British comic actor. He was the younger brother of Jack Hulbert. Like his brother, he was Cambridge educated and was a member of the Footlights comedy club as an undergraduate....
and Beryl Orde.
Cast
- Jack WarnerJack WarnerJack Leonard "J. L." Warner , born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California...
- Jack - Claude HulbertClaude HulbertClaude Noel Hulbert was a British comic actor. He was the younger brother of Jack Hulbert. Like his brother, he was Cambridge educated and was a member of the Footlights comedy club as an undergraduate....
- Victor Harbord - Beryl Orde - Beryl
- Evelyn Darvell - Peggy
- Derna Hazell - Maya
- Manning WhileyManning Whiley-Selected filmography:* Pack Up Your Troubles * The Ghost of St. Michael's * Pimpernel' Smith * The Dummy Talks * Bell-Bottom George * The Seventh Veil * Tehran...
- Russell Warren - Charles CarsonCharles Carson (actor)-Selected filmography:* The Loves of Ariane * Dreyfus * Many Waters * Marry Me * The Chinese Puzzle * Monsieur Albert * Men of Tomorrow * Leap Year...
- Marvello - G.H. MulcasterG.H. MulcasterG.H. Mulcaster was a British actor. He was the father of the actor Michael Mulcaster.-Selected filmography:* Mist in the Valley * The Squire of Long Hadley * A Girl of London * The Wonderful Wooing...
- Piers Harriman - John Carol - Jimmy Royce
- Gordon EdwardsGordon EdwardsGordon Edwards was born in Canada in 1940, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 with a gold medal in Mathematics and Physics and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. In 1972, he obtained a Ph.D...
- Marcus - Max Earl - Yates
- Ivy BensonIvy BensonIvy Benson was an English musician and bandleader, who led an all-female swing band. Benson and her band rose to fame in the 1940s, headlining variety theatres and topping the bill at the London Palladium, and became the BBC's resident house band.-Early years:Benson was born on 11 November 1913 in...
and her orchestra - Themselves