During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
Edward Malin
- Caretaker
- (as Eddie Malin)
Geoffrey Bellman
- Pathologist
- (as Geoffrey Bewian)
Humphrey Morton
- Dental Technician
- (as Humphry Morton)
Bruce Beeby
- Policeman
- (as Bruce Bebe)
Lindsay Hooper
- Man in Shelter
- (uncredited)
Richard Shaw
- Workman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough fictional, the main elements presented in the film match an actual murder case. On 27 January 1943 Harry Dobkin was executed at Wandsworth prison for the murder of his wife Rachel. The murder was likely committed in April 1941 at Vauxhall Baptist Church in London. She was reported missing by her sister, strangled, identified by dental records, last seen alive when she met her husband in a cafe to discuss outstanding maintenance payments, and there was a mysterious fire, a few days after she went missing, at the church where her husband was the firewatcher.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: SCOTLAND YARD a dramatised adaptation on one of the many crimes investigated by the most celebrated police centre in the world -.
Featured review
Stunning Stuff!!
Very, very pleased to have found this series and so far the episodes are
very winning. Have to write my review of the series as a whole here because
IMDb have given each short it's own page. Originally these shows were
designed as "featurettes" to be shown in cinemas along with the main
movie. First started filming in early 1950s and first cab off the rank was
"The Drayton Case" about a sensational war time murder that patrons
could probably remember. Another early one was "The Dark Stairway" from
1954 in which the police comb the city for a blind man who may or may
not be a murderer - it was taken from a 1952 case.
The shorts were ground breaking in their realistic lighting, dialogue and police procedural realism and so popular were they that cinema patrons often phoned theaters to find out exactly when the "Scotland Yard" featurettes were due to start so they wouldn't miss a bit of the action. All the shorts are uniformly excellent, there are none below standard. After the first few years the shorts went global with Anglo claiming to have sold the series in 51 countries - so a Continental air crept in - "The Wall of Death" featured the suspicious doings of a pair of Polish circus workers, "Destination Death" ends up in Lisbon.
Among the more macabre "The Lonely House" deals with a house of horrors and a couple who run a phony dating agency. "The Ghost Train Murder" - not many boasted stars who got their break from "Scotland Yard" but this one had Jill Ireland and Diane Aubrey as two girls in a block of flats who have been forced into prostitution. "The Never-Never Murder" is about the evils of hire purchase. Also "The Strange Case of Blondie" - a vaudeville theme, this is about a deadly blonde cat burglar who doubles as a door to door surveyist in order to case the houses!!
The shorts were ground breaking in their realistic lighting, dialogue and police procedural realism and so popular were they that cinema patrons often phoned theaters to find out exactly when the "Scotland Yard" featurettes were due to start so they wouldn't miss a bit of the action. All the shorts are uniformly excellent, there are none below standard. After the first few years the shorts went global with Anglo claiming to have sold the series in 51 countries - so a Continental air crept in - "The Wall of Death" featured the suspicious doings of a pair of Polish circus workers, "Destination Death" ends up in Lisbon.
Among the more macabre "The Lonely House" deals with a house of horrors and a couple who run a phony dating agency. "The Ghost Train Murder" - not many boasted stars who got their break from "Scotland Yard" but this one had Jill Ireland and Diane Aubrey as two girls in a block of flats who have been forced into prostitution. "The Never-Never Murder" is about the evils of hire purchase. Also "The Strange Case of Blondie" - a vaudeville theme, this is about a deadly blonde cat burglar who doubles as a door to door surveyist in order to case the houses!!
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- Nov 4, 2018
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Casebook: The Case of the Drayton Case
- Filming locations
- Merton Park Studios, Merton, London, England, UK(studio: made at Merton Park Studios)
- Production company
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- Runtime26 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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