South of Suez (1940)
Directed by Lewis Seiler
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is held for murder, forcing him to take it on the lam. With the reluctant aid of heroine Katherine Sheffield (Brenda Marshall), Gamble endeavors to prove his innocence. He is finally cleared not because of any exceptional detective work, but through the bungling of the actual killer (no, his name will not be revealed here). Strictly B-grade material, South of Suez is a virtual compendium of stock shots from earlier Warner Bros. films.
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business, daughter, death, evidence, exoneration, false-accusation, foreman, investigation, killing, love, mine, mining-company, murder, opal, owner, romance, south
