Blacklisted Hollywood director Cy Endfield was given sanctuary at Nettlefold Studos in the early fifties by producer Hannah Weinstein directing these three pilot episodes for a TV series cobbled together into a rather hectic feature film starring a dashing-looking Boris Karloff sporting an eyepatch as he stumbled across a succession of bizarre crimes as John Dickson Carr's Colonel March of Scotland Yard.
(Years later, two of the cast, John Hewer and Sheila Burrell, became famous in add campaigns; John Hewer (now bearded) as Captain Birdseye and Sheila Burrell as the little old lady dismayed to discover her local bank is now "a trendy wine bar".)
(Years later, two of the cast, John Hewer and Sheila Burrell, became famous in add campaigns; John Hewer (now bearded) as Captain Birdseye and Sheila Burrell as the little old lady dismayed to discover her local bank is now "a trendy wine bar".)