Checkmate (1935 film)

Checkmate is a 1935 Ariston Films Limited British crime film directed by George Pearson at Boreham Wood Studios and starring Maurice Evans, Felix Aylmer and Evelyn Foster. It was based on a novel by Amy Kennedy Gould.

Plot
A Scotland Yard detective hunts down jewel thieves in London, but becomes involved with the daughter of the gang's boss.

Cast

 * Maurice Evans as Phillip Allen
 * Felix Aylmer as Henry Nicholls
 * Evelyn Foster as Mary Nicholls
 * Sally Gray as Jean Nicholls
 * Donald Wolfit as Jack Barton
 * Wilfrid Caithness as Inspector Smith
 * Percy Walsh as Mr. Curtail
 * Ernest Jay as Huntly
 * John Buckmaster as Mike Doyle