"Scotland Yard" 1950s series.
by alexanderdavies-99382 | created - 7 months ago | updated - 7 months ago | PublicA complete list of the short subjects made in England, from 1953 to 1961. The presenter was renowned criminologist, Edgar Lustgarten. These episodes have an effective documentary style about them.
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1. The Drayton Case (1953)
26 min | Crime, Short
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Victor Platt, Hilda Barry, John Le Mesurier
Votes: 110
2. The Missing Man (1953)
30 min | Crime, Short
Through a mother's terrible dream, her son's body is discovered in France and his killer is arrested in England.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Tristan Rawson, Evelyn Moore, Axel Moller
Votes: 65
3. The Candlelight Murder (1953)
32 min | Crime, Short
A Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of an old recluse.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Gerald Case, Jack Lambert, Robert Cawdron
Votes: 56
4. The Blazing Caravan (1954)
32 min | Crime, Short
Just prior to World War II, a salesman murders a drunken man who just won a football pool. Through dogged investigation and the assistance of a bank manager, Scotland Yard arrests the killer.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Alexander Gauge, Edgar Driver, Alan Robinson
Votes: 68
5. The Dark Stairway (1954)
32 min | Crime, Short
A blind man who is a "nose witness" to a murder, is asked to select the killer from a line-up based on his acute sense of smell.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Vincent Ball, George Manship
Votes: 61
6. Late Night Final (1954)
Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives race to find a crippled man, the only witness to crime, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Colin Tapley, Terry Yorke, Frank Forsyth
Votes: 54
7. The Silent Witness (1954)
32 min | Short, Crime
A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Kenneth Henry, Frank Forsyth, Ivan Craig
Votes: 53
8. Fatal Journey (1954)
30 min | Crime, Short
A Scotland Yard detective investigates the connection between a man who suffers from amnesia, a blackmailer and murder.
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Gordon Bell, Edward Forsyth, Jack Melford
Votes: 56
9. Passenger to Tokyo (1954)
32 min | Crime, Short
A murderer attempts to escape justice by shipping his victim's body to Tokyo in a trunk.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Kenneth Henry, Ken Marshall, Peter Penn
Votes: 49
10. The Strange Case of Blondie (1954)
32 min | Short, Crime
Scotland Yard investigates a murder where the prime suspect is a female cat burglar.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Derek Aylward, Lee Sinclaire
Votes: 54
11. Night Plane to Amsterdam (1955)
31 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate a diamond robbery and track the gems to a female criminal who specializes in fencing stolen gems.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Gerald Case, Shay Gorman, Selma Vaz Dias
Votes: 53
12. The Stateless Man (1955)
29 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman, with the investigation focusing on her landlady's son.
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Frank Leighton, Robin Wentworth, Theodore Wilhelm
Votes: 49
13. The Mysterious Bullet (1955)
31 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A Scotland Yard ballistics expert is called into identify a murderer through a scientific analysis of the bullet that killed a man.
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Robert Churchill, Robert Raglan, John Stuart
Votes: 56
14. Murder Anonymous (1955)
31 min | Crime, Short
A Scotland Yard detective investigates the murder of a man who the lover of a blind man's wife.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Travers Humphreys, Jill Bennett, Peter Arne
Votes: 53
15. The Wall of Death (1956)
30 min | Short, Crime
A Scotland Yard detective investigates the death of a man who died on an amusement park ride
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Cyril Chamberlain, Vernon Greeves, Vanda Godsell
Votes: 45
16. The Case of the River Morgue (1956)
34 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate an insurance scam, where a "drowned" man proves to have been dead before he was thrown in the water.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Hugh Moxey, Gordon Boyd, Jane Welsh
Votes: 48
17. Destination Death (1956)
31 min | Crime, Short
When Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a man in the London airport, the trail leads to Lisbon and a international currency smuggling gang.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Arthur Gomez, Paula Byrne
Votes: 49
18. Person Unknown (1956)
32 min | Crime, Short
A spy from behind the Iron Curtain changes identities with an assassin.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Edward Cast, Alan Robinson
Votes: 46
19. Bullet from the Past (1957)
33 min | Crime, Short
While investigating an attempted homicide, a Scotland Yard detective solves a murder that occurred 27 years earlier.
Director: Kenneth Hume | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Ballard Berkeley, Duncan McIntyre, Donovan Winter
Votes: 49
20. The Lonely House (1957)
33 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard investigates a marriage brokerage service where the clients have a high mortality rate.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Gordon Boyd, Frank Forsyth
Votes: 50
21. Inside Information (1957)
32 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Ronald Adam, Bernard Fox, Basil Henson
Votes: 45
22. The Case of 'The Smiling Widow' (1957)
31 min | Short, Crime
A Scotland Yard detective investigates the murder of an artist who dabbled in blackmail.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Vernon Greeves, Carl Jaffe
Votes: 42
23. The Mail Van Murder (1957)
29 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives pursue a murderous gang of robbers who held up a mail truck, killing the driver in the process.
Director: John Knight | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Hy Hazell, Dennis Castle, Gordon Boyd
Votes: 55
24. Night Crossing (1957)
32 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate the mysterious death of a Hungarian who had a knife-throwing act.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Julian Strange, John Serret
Votes: 45
25. The Tyburn Case (1957)
32 min | Crime, Short
When a woman is found drowned under suspicious circumstances, Scotland Yard detectives investigate a lawyer for possible insurance fraud.
Director: David Paltenghi | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, John Warwick, Gordon Boyd, Howard Marion-Crawford
Votes: 56
26. The White Cliffs Mystery (1957)
32 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate the suspicious death of a rocket scientist and discover the man was being blackmailed by his secretary, who intern was threatened by foreign agents.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Julian Strange, Alan Robinson
Votes: 46
27. Print of Death (1958)
26 min | Crime, Short
A Scotland Yard detective in pursuit of payroll thieves suspects that the criminals are using a dead man's fingerprints to throw him off the trail.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, John Warwick, Tim Turner, Phil Brown
Votes: 48
28. Crime of Honour (1958)
27 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate the death of a prosperous wine merchant.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Ivan Craig, Jean Lodge
Votes: 40
29. The Cross-Road Gallows (1958)
29 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A Scotland Yard detective investigates the murder of vacationers staying in caravans.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, John Warwick, David Lodge, Tim Turner
Votes: 48
30. The Unseeing Eye (1959)
28 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Scotland Yard detectives pursue a killer arsonist. Their only clue is a glass eye that was left at the scene of the crime.
Director: Geoffrey Muller | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, John Stone, Garard Green
Votes: 42
31. The Ghost Train Murder (1959)
32 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives pursue the murderers of a Hungarian girl found dead on an amusement park ride. Their inquiries lead them to a rooming house full of shoplifters.
Director: Geoffrey Muller | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Gordon Boyd, Mary Laura Wood
Votes: 59
32. The Dover Road Mystery (1960)
30 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate a gang of bank robbers who steal common sedans and convert them into race cars, thus allowing themselves to elude pursuing police cars.
Director: Gerard Bryant | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Geoffrey Keen, Edward Cast, Leonard Sachs
Votes: 54
33. The Last Train (1960)
31 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard investigates a murder committed in the London Underground
Director: Geoffrey Muller | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Norman Johns, Lisa Daniely
Votes: 47
34. Evidence in Concrete (1960)
30 min | Crime, Short
Police investigating a routine pedestrian fatality call in Scotland Yard when they make a surprising discovery.
Director: Gordon Hales | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Howard Pays, Peter Welch
Votes: 50
35. The Grand Junction Case (1961)
30 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a woman whose dismembered body is found floating in a canal. The only clue to the woman's identity is an usual "Edelweiss" tattoo.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Howard Pays, Wilfrid Brambell
Votes: 52
36. The Silent Weapon (1961)
28 min | Crime, Short, Drama
Scotland Yard detectives investigate homicide and race-fixing at a dog track.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Geoffrey Keen, Stanley Morgan, Michael Nightingale
Votes: 43
37. The Never Never Murder (1961)
30 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a woman found in a wrecked building.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Maurice Good, John Salew
Votes: 47
38. The Square Mile Murder (1961)
28 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate a series of burglaries where an expert safe-cracker has stolen a large amount of cash and other valuables.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, John Welsh, Stanley Morgan, Delphi Lawrence
Votes: 45
39. Wings of Death (1961)
29 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a pilot found in the wreckage of his own plane. Their investigations focus on a passenger who apparently survived the crash, but was injured when the plane came to grief.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Harry H. Corbett, Simon Lack, Shelagh Fraser
Votes: 49
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