''Blake of Scotland Yard'' is a 1937
Victory Pictures
Sam Katzman (July 7, 1901 – August 4, 1973) was an American film producer and Film director, director. Katzman produced low-budget genre films, including Serial film, serials, which had disproportionately high returns for the studios and ...
American
film serial directed by
Robert F. Hill
Robert F. Hill (April 14, 1886 – March 18, 1966) was a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor.
Career
Bob Hill began his screen career in 1915 at Universal Pictures. In those early days, members of film crews were sometimes c ...
. The serial was also edited down into a
feature film
A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...
version.
Plot
Sir James Blake, a leading figure in crime fighting, has retired from Scotland Yard in order to assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James believes that their invention has the potential to prevent wars, and plans to donate it to the League of Nations. However, a gang of criminals led by the elusive "Scorpion" steals the device, and Blake and his associates must recover the invention and determine the true identity of the "Scorpion".
Cast
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Ralph Byrd as Jerry Sheehan
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Herbert Rawlinson as Sir James Blake
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Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay (born Mary Elizabeth Greear; August 31, 1914 – November 22, 2002) was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, starring mostly in B-movies and cliffhangers, with her career starting during the silent film era.
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as Hope Mason
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Lloyd Hughes as Dr. Marshall
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Dickie Jones as Bobby Mason
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Lucille Lund Lucille may refer to:
People
People with the given name "Lucille":
* Lucille Bailie (born 1969), Australian basketball player
* Lucille Ball (1911–1989), American actress best known for the television series ''I Love Lucy''
* Lucille Berrien (bo ...
as The Duchess, a Gang Moll
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Nick Stuart
Nick Stuart (April 10, 1904 – April 7, 1973) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actor and bandleader. His career spanned five decades, during which he appeared in over 50 films, more than half of them features, as well as film shorts, ser ...
as Julot, Male Apache Dancer
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Sam Flint as Chief Inspector Henderson
* Gail Newbury as Mimi, policewoman posing as dancer
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Jimmy Aubrey as Baron Polinka
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Theodore Lorch as Daggett, the butler
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George DeNormand as Gang Member posing as Newshawker
* Bob Terry as Peyton, lead thug
* William Farrel as Count Basil Zagaloff
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Frank Wayne
Frank Wayne (born Rocco Francis Rossi Jr.; July 9, 1917 – March 18, 1988) was an American game show producer and host. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was also associated with Mark Goodson Productions.
Biography
Wayne was the original executi ...
as Charles
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Dick Curtis as Nicky, a Gang Member
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1937 films
1930s crime films
1930s science fiction films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Robert F. Hill
Films set in London
Film serials
Films produced by Sam Katzman
American crime films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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