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07/03/1939 Comedy, Mystery 1h 16m
75
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Overview

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.

  1. Eugene Forde

    Director

  2. Richard Llewellyn

    Writer

  3. Bryan Edgar Wallace

    Writer

  4. Gerald Elliott

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Gordon Harker

    Inspector Hornleigh

  2. Alastair Sim

    Sergeant Bingham

  3. Miki Hood

    Ann Gordon

  4. Wally Patch

    Sam Holt

  5. Steven Geray

    Michael Kavanos

  6. Edward Underdown

    Peter Dench

  7. Hugh Williams

    Bill Gordon

  8. Gibb McLaughlin

    Alfred Cooper

  9. Ronald Adam

    Wittens

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-22
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 qu...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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