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.
- Released
- 1939-03-07
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery
- Runtime
- 76 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Eugene Forde
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 from 7 votes
Cast
- Gordon Harker as Inspector Hornleigh
- Alastair Sim as Sergeant Bingham
- Miki Hood as Ann Gordon
- Wally Patch as Sam Holt
- Steven Geray as Michael Kavanos
- Edward Underdown as Peter Dench
- Hugh Williams as Bill Gordon
- Gibb McLaughlin as Alfred Cooper
- Ronald Adam as Wittens
- Eliot Makeham as Alexander Parkinson
- Cecil Bevan as Auctioneer
- Charles Carson as Chief Superintendent
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