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The Crime at Blossoms

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The Crime at Blossoms
Directed byMaclean Rogers
Written byMordaunt Shairp
Based onplay The Crime at Blossoms by Mordaunt Shairp[1]
Produced byHenry Edwards
StarringHugh Wakefield
Joyce Bland
Eileen Munro
CinematographyWalter J. Harvey
Production
company
Distributed byParamount British Pictures (UK)
Release date
  • March 1933 (1933-03) (UK)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Crime at Blossoms is a 1933 British crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Hugh Wakefield and Joyce Bland.[2] It was remade by Rogers in 1949 as Dark Secret.[3]

After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.[4] The film is based on a play of the same title by Mordaunt Shairp.

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Critical reception

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TV Guide called it an "Okay crime melodrama."[5]

References

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  1. ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ The Crime at Blossoms notes, ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 24 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Dark Secret (1949) - Maclean Rogers - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
  4. ^ "The Crime at Blossoms (1933) - Maclean Rogers - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
  5. ^ "The Crime At Blossoms".
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