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Man Bait (1952)

• Director
  • Terence Fisher
• Writers
  • Frederick Knott(screenplay)
  • James Hadley Chase(original story)
• Stars
  • George Brent
  • Marguerite Chapman
  • Raymond Huntley

  The Last Page was the original British title for the 1952 murder meller Man Bait. Hollywood's George Brent plays a married bookstore owner who is blackmailed by scheming Diana Dors. The subsequent chain reaction of events leads to the death of Brent's invalid wife. It gets worse when Dors is killed by her partner-in-crime Peter Reynolds, and Brent is accused of the crime. The bookseller's faithful secretary Marguerite Chapman comes to the rescue. As with many British programmers of the 1950s which starred American actors, The Last Page was distributed in the U.S. by Lippert Productions.