Stryker of the Yard
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Initial release 1953 Running time 1h 7m | Duration Director Arthur Crabtree Genres Drama, Crime Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer Guy Morgan, Lester Powell Cast Clifford Evans, Susan Stephen Similar movies Gasbags (1940), Neutral Port (1940), I Thank You (1941), Band Waggon (1940), Alfs Button Afloat (1938) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stryker of the Yard (A.K.A. Stryker of Scotland Yard and Scotland Yard Cases ) is a 1953 British crime film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Clifford Evans, Susan Stephen, Jack Watling and Eliot Makeham.
A second cinema film, Companions in Crime followed in 1954.
In 1957, these films and others aired as a 15-episode British television series of the same name, starring Evans, George Woodbridge, and Tim Turner. The series was also shown on U.S. TV.
A host (Tom Fallon) introduced each episode, and at the end of each story intoned: "And it just goes to show that crime does not pay."
In 1957-1958, the American Broadcasting Company aired a related series, Scotland Yard, hosted by Edgar Lustgarten and starring John Woodvine, Russell Napier, and John Carlisle.
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