Edgar Wallace Presents: The Flying Squad (1940)
Product Description
Adapting a story by Edgar Wallace, one of the twentieth century’s
most celebrated and prolific suspense writers, this 1940 crime thriller
centres on the attempts of Flying Squad officers to smash a London
drug-smuggling ring. The final feature by leading silent-era director
Herbert Brenon, Flying Squad stars some of the era’s
most accomplished performers, including Sebastian Shaw, Jack Hawkins
and Kathleen Harrison, and is presented here in a brand-new transfer
from the original film elements.
Inspector Bradley is out to break a drug-smuggling gang which operates
from an old house overhanging the Thames; the gang is headed by a
murderer called Mark McGill. The disappearance of young Ron Perryman –
whom McGill has shot and dumped in the river – gives the Inspector his
ideal opportunity to begin asking questions…
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