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Smash and Grab is a film of genre Thriller directed by Tim Whelan with Jack Buchanan

Smash and Grab (1937)

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Genres Thriller,    Comedy,    Crime
Rating66% 3.3308453.3308453.3308453.3308453.330845

This article is about a British film. For the crime, see Smash and grab. For the 2013 documentary, see Smash & Grab.
Smash and Grab is a 1937 British comedy crime film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph, Arthur Margetson and Anthony Holles. A private detective is hired by an insurance company to hunt down a criminal gang on a spree of smash and grab raids on London jewellers.

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Jack Buchanan

(John Forrest)Arthur Margetson

(Malvern)Edward Lexy

(Inspector McInerney)Laurence Hanray

(Praskins (as Laurence Hanray))David Burns
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