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Shadows is a film of genre Crime directed by Alexander Esway with Jacqueline Logan
Shadows (1931)
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Add to a movie listDirected by Alexander Esway
Genres Crime
Shadows (also known as Press Gang and My Wife's Family) is a 1931 British crime film directed by Alexander Esway and starring Jacqueline Logan, Bernard Nedell and Gordon Harker. The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
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Actors
Jacqueline Logan
(Fay Melville)
Bernard Nedell
(Press Rawlinson)
Gordon Harker
(Earole)
Derrick De Marney
(Peter)
Molly Lamont
(Jill Dexter)
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