Murder at Scotland Yard is 1953 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 crime film

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 directed by Victor M. Gover

Victor M. Gover

-Selected filmography:* The Curse of the Wraydons * King of the Underworld * Murder at Scotland Yard...

 and starring Tod Slaughter

Tod Slaughter

Tod Slaughter was an English actor, best known for playing over-the-top maniacs in macabre film adaptations of Victorian melodramas.-Ealy life:...

, Patrick Barr

Patrick Barr

Patrick David Barr was a British film and television actor.Born in Akola, India, Patrick Barr went from stage to screen with The Merry Men of Sherwood . He spent the 1930s playing various beneficent authority figures and "reliable friend" types...

 and Tucker McGuire

Tucker McGuire

Tucker McGuire was an American-born actress who appeared largely in British films and television. She was born as Anne Tucker McGuire.-Selected filmography:* Strangers on Honeymoon * Clothes and the Woman...

. It is a sequel to the 1952 film King of the Underworld

King of the Underworld

King of the Underworld is a 1952 British crime film directed by Victor M. Gover and starring Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr and Tucker McGuire. A master criminal is hunted by the police after committing a series of crimes. It was followed by a sequel Murder at Scotland Yard...

and depicts the continuing battle between the master criminal Terence Reilly and Inspector Morley of Scotland Yard. Reilly has escaped from prison and Morley is called in to recapture him. It was made at Bushey Studios. It was Slaughter's last feature film.

Cast

• Tod Slaughter
  Tod Slaughter
  Tod Slaughter was an English actor, best known for playing over-the-top maniacs in macabre film adaptations of Victorian melodramas.-Ealy life:...
  
   - Terence Reilly
• Patrick Barr
  Patrick Barr
  Patrick David Barr was a British film and television actor.Born in Akola, India, Patrick Barr went from stage to screen with The Merry Men of Sherwood . He spent the 1930s playing various beneficent authority figures and "reliable friend" types...
  
   - Inspector Morley
• Tucker McGuire
  Tucker McGuire
  Tucker McGuire was an American-born actress who appeared largely in British films and television. She was born as Anne Tucker McGuire.-Selected filmography:* Strangers on Honeymoon * Clothes and the Woman...
  
   - Eileen Trotter
• Dorothy Bramhall
  Dorothy Bramhall
  -Selected filmography:* Love Story * I See a Dark Stranger * Take My Life * The Clouded Crystal * A Run for Your Money * Encore * Wide Boy * Murder at Scotland Yard...
  
   - Maria Flame
• Tom Macaulay
  Tom Macaulay
  Tom Macaulay was a British actor. He was born as Chambré Thomas MacAulay Booth.-Selected filmography:* I See a Dark Stranger * The Chiltern Hundreds * The Long Dark Hall...
  
  - Inspector Grant