Hyde Park Corner (film)
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| Directed by | Sinclair Hill |
| Written by | D. B. Wyndham-Lewis Selwyn Jepson Walter C. Hackett (play) |
| Produced by | Harcourt Templeman |
| Starring | Gordon Harker Binnie Hale Eric Portman Gibb McLaughlin |
| Cinematography | Cyril Bristow |
| Edited by | Michael Hankinson |
| Music by | Louis Levy |
Production company | Grosvenor Films |
| Distributed by | Pathé Pictures International |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Hyde Park Corner is a 1935 British comedy crime film, directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Eric Portman. Harker portrays a policeman investigating a crime in 1930s London, which proves to have its origins in the 1780s.[1] The film takes its name from Hyde Park Corner in Central London where the events of the film occur. It was based on a play by Walter C. Hackett. The film was made at Welwyn Studios.
Synopsis
In the 1780s, after an evening of illegal gambling, two of the participants fight a duel in which the wronged party is killed by a villain, who has just cheated to win a newly built house at Hyde Park Corner from him. Officer Cheatle of the Bow Street Runners is able to arrest those present for gambling, but is unable to prove that a murder has occurred.
A hundred and fifty years later, the Officer's great-grandson, Constable Cheatle, is intrigued by reports of another murder at the same house at Hyde Park Corner. Cheatle sees this as a way of fulfilling his ambition to join the plainclothes detective branch. His attempts to solve the case are initially interrupted by Sophie, a petty criminal whom he arrests while she is shoplifting in a department store. Eventually, with her help, he is able to uncover the true culprit of the crime that has its roots in the fatal evening in the eighteenth century.
Cast
- Gordon Harker as Constable Cheatle
- Binnie Hale as Sophie
- Eric Portman as Edward Chester
- Gibb McLaughlin as Sir Arthur Gannett
- Harry Tate as Taxi Driver
- Robert Holmes as Concannon
- Eileen Peel as Barbara Ainsworth
- Donald Wolfit as Howard
References
- ^ BFI | Film & TV Database | HYDE PARK CORNER (1935) Archived 5 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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