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The Drayton Case

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The Drayton Case
Directed byKen Hughes
Written byKen Hughes
Produced byAlec C. Snowden
executive
Nat Cohen
Stuart Levy
StarringVictor Platt
Vincent Ball
John Le Mesuirer
Narrated byEdgar Lustgarten
CinematographyJohn Wiles
Edited byDerek Holding
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated (UK)
Release date
  • February 1953 (1953-02)
Running time
26 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Drayton Case is a 1953 British short crime film produced by the Anglo-Amalgamated production company as part of their Scotland Yard film series. It was directed by Ken Hughes and is hosted by Edgar Lustgarten. It stars Hilda Barry and John Le Mesurier.[1][2]

Made at Merton Park Studios, it was originally released as support for cinema feature film screenings and later screened on television.[3]

It is based on the case of Harry Dobkin with names and some other details changed.

Plot

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During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German aeroplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman. It turns out she was killed by her husband Charles Drayton.

Cast

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  • Vincent Platt as Drayton
  • Hilda Barry as Elizabeth Drayton
  • John Le Mesurier as Div. Spt. Henley
  • Victor Ball as Henley's assistant

References

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  1. ^ "The Drayton Case (1953)". BFI. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012.
  2. ^ Vagg, Stephen (14 November 2020). "Ken Hughes Forgotten Auteur". Filmink.
  3. ^ Scotland Yard at CTVA accessed 25 June 2014
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