![The Franchise Affair (1951)](/media/img/movie/poster/m/30/b68f6791db49d9fd1c3c28bb.jpg)
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Michael Denison Dulcie Gray Anthony Nicholls Marjorie Fielding Athene Seyler John Bailey Ann Stephens Hy Hazell Kenneth More Avice Landone Maureen Glynne Peter Jones Moultrie Kelsall Martin Boddey Patrick Troughton Hugh Moxey John Warwick Ernest Jay Everley Gregg Ambrosine Phillpotts Harold Lang John Forrest Jean Anderson Lawrence Ray Victor Maddern Doris Yorke Will Ambro Jack McNaughton Richard Neller John Warren Charles Saynor John Wilder
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