Inspector Hornleigh (1939)
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.
- Date of release
- 1939-03-07
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery
- Director
- Eugene Forde
- Collection
- Inspector Hornleigh Collection
Casting
- Gordon Harker — Inspector Hornleigh
- Alastair Sim — Sergeant Bingham
- Miki Hood — Ann Gordon
- Wally Patch — Sam Holt
- Steven Geray — Michael Kavanos
- Edward Underdown — Peter Dench
- Hugh Williams — Bill Gordon
- Gibb McLaughlin — Alfred Cooper
- Ronald Adam — Wittens
- Eliot Makeham — Alexander Parkinson
- Cecil Bevan — Auctioneer
- Charles Carson — Chief Superintendent
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