Release Date: 1941-05-17
Overview: Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. 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 talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
Rating: 7.25 / 10
Gordon Harker
as Inspector Hornleigh
Alastair Sim
as Sergeant Bingham
Phyllis Calvert
as Mrs. Wilkinson
Edward Chapman
as Mr. Blenkinsop
Charles Oliver
as Dr. Wilkinson
Alex Vetchinsky - Art Direction
R. E. Dearing - Editor
Louis Levy - Music
Walter Forde - Director
Edward Black - Producer
This features an entertaining cast, a speeding train and some evil Nazis - and passes 90 minutes really quite well. It's down to the eponymous policeman (Gordon Harker) and his enthusiastic but bumbli...