The Drayton Case

The Drayton Case
The Drayton Case
Directed by	Ken Hughes
Written by	Ken Hughes
Produced by	Alec C. Snowden; executive; Nat Cohen; Stuart Levy
Starring	Victor Platt; Vincent Ball; John Le Mesuirer
Narrated by	Edgar Lustgarten
Cinematography	John Wiles
Edited by	Derek Holding
Production; company	Anglo-Amalgamated
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated (UK)
Release date	February 1953;
Running time	26 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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

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

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

References

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

External links

The Drayton Case at IMDb
The Drayton Case at BFI

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[1] "The Drayton Case (1953)". BFI. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012.

[filmink-2] Vagg, Stephen (14 November 2020). "Ken Hughes Forgotten Auteur". Filmink.

[3] Scotland Yard at CTVA accessed 25 June 2014

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