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Director
  
George Blair

Production
  
Republic Pictures

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Mystery

Cinematography
  
William Bradford

Country
  
United States


Release date
  
July 26, 1944 (1944-07-26)

Writer
  
Denison Clift (screenplay), Denison Clift (adapted from the novel "Room 40, O.B.")

Cast
  
Edgar Barrier
(John Usher / Robert Usher),
Stephanie Bachelor
(Sudan Ainger),
C. Aubrey Smith
(Sir Christopher Pelt),
Lionel Atwill
(Waterlow),
Henry Stephenson
(Sir Reginald Meade),
John Abbott
(Mortimer Cope)

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Secrets of Scotland Yard is a 1944 American thriller film directed by George Blair and starring Edgar Barrier, Stephanie Bachelor and C. Aubrey Smith. The screenplay was by Denison Clift, adapting one of his own stories "Room 40, O.B." from Blue Book Magazine. It concerns a British police detective who goes undercover to root out a Nazi spy in Britain's decoding organization.

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Cast

  • Edgar Barrier as John Usher / Robert Usher
  • Stephanie Bachelor as Sudan Ainger
  • C. Aubrey Smith as Sir Christopher Pelt
  • Lionel Atwill as Waterlow
  • Henry Stephenson as Sir Reginald Meade
  • John Abbott as Mortimer Cope
  • Walter Kingsford as Roylott Bevan
  • Martin Kosleck as Josef
  • Forrester Harvey as Alfred Morgan
  • Frederick Worlock as Mason
  • Matthew Boulton as Colonel Hedley
  • Bobby Cooper as David Usher

    • Critical reception

  • Silentcomedymafia.com noted that director "Blair keeps up the pace and suspense perfectly well, giving the film a relatively expensive look when you know full well (Republic president) Herbert Yates is pinching every penny."
  • In The Star-spangled Screen: The American World War II Film, Bernard F. Dick called the film "first-rate espionage and one of the studios classier efforts...Another instance of a minor film that shows considerably more intelligence than many major ones. It is the only film of the period to explain the techniques of Cryptoanalysis, particularly how page numbers of a book can provide the key to a code."

    • References

    Secrets of Scotland Yard Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Secrets of Scotland Yard IMDb Secrets of Scotland Yard themoviedb.org


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