''The Singing Cop'' is a 1938 British musical comedy spy drama, directed by

Arthur B. Woods Arthur Bickerstaffe Woods (17 August 1904 – 8 February 1944) was an English film director with 27 credits between 1933 and 1940. Woods' films were mainly quota quickies but were diverse in style, from light comedy and musicals to dark crime ...

and starring singer Keith Falkner and

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. The film was a

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production, based on a short story by Kenneth Leslie-Smith. It is now classed as a

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.Missing Believed Lost
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Plot

A temperamental opera diva arouses official suspicion that she is a spy, secretly gathering classified information to pass to enemy agents. A policeman who happens to be a talented amateur singer is sent undercover to join the opera company and try to find out whether there is any substance to the allegations. Once there, an immediate attraction springs up between the policeman and a female member of the company. But the diva also sets her sights on him and, used to getting what she wants, becomes the bitter rival-in-love of the other singer. The policeman lets his lady friend into his confidence, and the pair set about sleuthing. They finally prove that all the suspicions were justified and the diva is indeed a foreign agent.

Cast

* Keith Falkner as Jack Richards *

as Kit Fitzwillow *

Marta Labarr Marta Labarr (born Martha Eugénie Claquin; 4 June 1912 – 30 June 1999) was a French-American singer and actress who appeared in 11 British and French films, usually as a leading lady. Her final film was the 1946 thriller ''Tehran'', playing o ...

as Maria Santova *

Ivy St. Helier Ivy Janet Aitchison (1886, Saint Helier, Jersey – 8 November 1971, London, England) better known as Ivy St. Helier was a British theatre, stage actress, composer and lyrics, lyricist. Stage On the stage, St. Helier played Manon la Crevette in ...

as Sonia Kassona *

Athole Stewart Athole Chalmers Stewart (25 June 1879 – 18 October 1940) was a British stage and latterly film actor, often in authoritarian or aristocratic roles. On stage, he played in the original production of Noël Coward's '' Hay Fever'' at the Ambassa ...

as Sir Algernon Fitzwillow *

Bobbie Comber Edmund Comber (8 January 1886 – 1 March 1942),5 March 1942, "Chit Chat", ''The Stage'', p.4, accessed viThe Stage Archive2 February 2014 known professionally as Bobbie Comber, was a British comedian, singer and actor. He was born in Bury St Ed ...

as Bombosa *

Glen Alyn Glenore Jean Pointing (1913–1984), known professionally as Glen Alyn, was an Australian actress who appeared in British films from the 1930s until 1957. Originally a dancer in West End revue, she made her film debut in '' The Outsider'' (1931 ...

as Bunty Waring * George Galleon as Drips Foster-Hanley * Ian McLean as Zabisti *

Vera Bogetti Vera Josephine Boggetti (5 October 1902 – 10 October 1985) was a British stage and film actress. She married Laurence J. Rickards in Hampstead, London in 1925, and the couple had a daughter, Pauline, in 1931, who died as an infant in 1932. ...

as Rosa *

Frederick Burtwell Augustus Frederick Burtwell (23 December 1894 – 16 November 1948) was an English actor, on stage from 1914, who featured in supporting roles in over 40 British films of the 1930s and 1940s. Partial filmography * '' Other People's Sins'' ...

as Dickie *

Robert Rendel Robert Rendel (2 December 1884, in St Mary Abbots Kensington, London – 9 May 1944, in Marylebone, London) was a British actor of stage, screen, television and radio. Career His stage work included roles in the original Broadway theatre, Broadw ...

as Sir Treves Hallam * Brian Buchel as Pemberton *

Derek Gorst Derek Gorst (1903-1981) was a British actor. Selected filmography * '' Once a Thief'' (1935) * '' Lucky Days'' (1935) * ''Lucky Jade'' (1937) * '' The Fatal Hour'' (1937) * '' The Singing Cop'' (1938) * ''The Gables Mystery'' (1938) * ''Incident ...

as Captain Farquhar

References

External links

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''The Singing Cop''
at BFI Film & TV Database British musical comedy films 1938 films 1938 musical comedy films Films directed by Arthur B. Woods Lost British films British black-and-white films 1938 lost films Lost musical comedy films Films shot at Rock Studios 1930s English-language films 1930s British films {{musical-comedy-film-stub