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Inspector Hornleigh

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7.3/10 • 5

1939-03-071h 16m

ComedyMystery

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.

Directors
Eugene Forde
Writters
Gerald Elliott, Richard Llewellyn, Bryan Edgar Wallace
Characters
Gerald Elliott, Richard Llewellyn, Bryan Edgar Wallace, John P. Wynn
Editors
Gerald Elliott, Richard Llewellyn, Bryan Edgar Wallace, Douglas Robertson

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  1. Gordon Harker

    Gordon Harker

    Inspector Hornleigh

  2. Alastair Sim

    Alastair Sim

    Sergeant Bingham

  3. Miki Hood

    Miki Hood

    Ann Gordon

  4. Wally Patch

    Wally Patch

    Sam Holt

  5. Steven Geray

    Steven Geray

    Michael Kavanos

  6. Edward Underdown

    Edward Underdown

    Peter Dench

  7. Hugh Williams

    Hugh Williams

    Bill Gordon

  8. Gibb McLaughlin

    Gibb McLaughlin

    Alfred Cooper

  9. Ronald Adam

    Ronald Adam

    Wittens

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CinemaSerf

Jun 22, 2022

7/10

I rather enjoyed this quickly paced mystery. When a suitcase is discovered that contains the Chancellor of the Exchequer's famous budget box, our eponymous police inspector (Gordon Harker) and his amiable sidekick "Sgt. Bingham" (Alastair Sim) discover that someone has had access to the top secret treasury document and maybe using the information contained within to steal a march of the actual budget announcement and damage the fiscal future of the nation... There is a good dynamic between the two - with Sim good fun as the bumbling support act helping along his shrewd boss. The dialogue is quite witty at times, and though the investigation itself is a bit ho-hum, the characters offer us a little more to get behind as their efforts to track down the culprits build up steam. Harker knew how to keep the audience interested with a combination of amusing facial expressions and quick wittedness, and he does that well here making for a much more entertaining - if probably twenty minutes too long - crime caper.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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