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.
- 7.4
- 1939
- Released
- 1h 16m
Gordon Harker
Inspector Hornleigh
Alastair Sim
Sergeant Bingham
Miki Hood
Ann GordonWally 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 ParkinsonCecil Bevan
Auctioneer
Charles Carson
Chief Superintendent
Peter Gawthorne
Chancellor
Vi Kaley
Landlady
Arthur Mullard
Charles Paton
Auction BidderJulian Vedey
Cafe OwnerJack Vyvyan
Sgt HawkinsReleased
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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 bud