''The Flying Squad'' is a 1932
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crime film directed by F.W. Kraemer and starring
Harold Huth
Harold Huth (20 January 1892 – 26 October 1967) was a British actor, film director and producer.
Biography Early life
He was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1892. He was a nephew of Eva Moore and a cousin of the actor Roland Pertwee.
Fo ...
,
Carol Goodner
Carol Marie Goodner (May 30, 1904 – November 29, 2001) was an American actress who appeared mostly in British films and television.
Career
Carol Goodner was born in New York City on May 30, 1904.
A toe dancer when she was only four ye ...
,
Henry Wilcoxon
Harry Frederick Wilcoxon (8 September 1905 – 6 March 1984), known as Henry Wilcoxon, was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and who was a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associ ...
and
Edward Chapman. It was based on a 1928 novel by
Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer.
Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during th ...
, which was also filmed in
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
and
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
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January
* Januar ...
. The screenplay was written by
Bryan Edgar Wallace
Bryan Edgar Wallace (1904–1971) was a British writer. The son of the writer Edgar Wallace, Bryan was also a writer of crime and mystery novels which were very similar in style to those of his father. He was named after the American politician W ...
, based on his father's novel. The officers of the
Flying Squad
The Flying Squad is a branch of the Serious and Organised Crime Command within London's Metropolitan Police Service. It is also known as the Robbery Squad, Specialist Crime Directorate 7, SC&O7 and SO7. It is nicknamed The Sweeney, an abbreviat ...
attempt to track down a drug-smuggling gang.
Cast
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Harold Huth
Harold Huth (20 January 1892 – 26 October 1967) was a British actor, film director and producer.
Biography Early life
He was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1892. He was a nephew of Eva Moore and a cousin of the actor Roland Pertwee.
Fo ...
as Mark McGill
*
Carol Goodner
Carol Marie Goodner (May 30, 1904 – November 29, 2001) was an American actress who appeared mostly in British films and television.
Career
Carol Goodner was born in New York City on May 30, 1904.
A toe dancer when she was only four ye ...
as Ann Perryman
*
Edward Chapman as Sedeman
*
Campbell Gullan as Tiser
*
Henry Wilcoxon
Harry Frederick Wilcoxon (8 September 1905 – 6 March 1984), known as Henry Wilcoxon, was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and who was a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associ ...
as Inspector Bradley
*
Abraham Sofaer as Li Yoseph
* Joe Cunningham as Simmonds
References
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1932 films
1932 crime films
Films based on works by Edgar Wallace
Remakes of British films
Sound film remakes of silent films
British crime films
British black-and-white films
1930s police procedural films
British police films
1930s British films
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