Gordon Harker
Inspector Hornleigh
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It: Directed by Walter Forde. With Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert, Edward Chapman. The plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a clever gang of Nazi espionage agents.
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- Crime, Drama
- Walter Forde
- 1941-07-01
Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It. Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It is a 1941 British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert and Edward Chapman. It was the third and final film adaptation of the Inspector Hornleigh stories. It was released in America by 20th-Century Fox under the title Mail ...
- 5 May 1941 (UK)
- Edward Black (producer)
Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly ...
- Walter Forde
- 2
The plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a clever gang of Nazi espionage agents. Most of the action takes place aboard a speeding train, with our heroes never quite certain who can be trusted and who can't. Phyllis Calvert contributes to the intrigue as one Mrs. Wilkinson who is not all she seems to be. — Anonymous.
The play, Hornleigh's first full-length case, received a favourable review in The Manchester Guardian. Film. Between 1938 and 1940 a trilogy of films was made about Hornleigh, starring Gordon Harker in the title role: Inspector Hornleigh (1938), Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939) and Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It (1940).
