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Nobody Home

Original title: Return of the Frog
  • 19381938
  • 1h 13m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
CrimeMysteryThriller
The former partner of a master criminal turns himself in to Scotland Yard. The criminal, a master of disguise, plots to kill his partner, but must first get through the wall of security Scot... Read allThe former partner of a master criminal turns himself in to Scotland Yard. The criminal, a master of disguise, plots to kill his partner, but must first get through the wall of security Scotland Yard has thrown around him.The former partner of a master criminal turns himself in to Scotland Yard. The criminal, a master of disguise, plots to kill his partner, but must first get through the wall of security Scotland Yard has thrown around him.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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    • Maurice Elvey
    • Gerald Elliott
    • Ian Hay
    • Edgar Wallace(story "The India Rubber Man")
  • Stars
    • Gordon Harker
    • Hartley Power
    • Rene Ray
    • Maurice Elvey
    • Gerald Elliott
    • Ian Hay
    • Edgar Wallace(story "The India Rubber Man")
  • Stars
    • Gordon Harker
    • Hartley Power
    • Rene Ray
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    • 9User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Gordon Harker
    Gordon Harker
    • Inspector Elk
    Hartley Power
    • 'Chicago Dale' Sandford
    Rene Ray
    Rene Ray
    • Lela Oaks
    • (as René Ray)
    Cyril Smith
    • Maggs
    Charles Lefeaux
    • Golly Oaks
    Una O'Connor
    Una O'Connor
    • Mum Oaks
    Meinhart Maur
    • 'Dutchy' Alkmann
    George Hayes
    George Hayes
    • Dandy Lane
    Charles Carson
    Charles Carson
    • Chief Commissioner
    Aubrey Mallalieu
    Aubrey Mallalieu
    • Banker
    Denis Cowles
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Alexander Field
    • Sniffy Offer
    • (uncredited)
    Philip Godfrey
    • Number 39
    • (uncredited)
    Patrick Holt
    Patrick Holt
    • Cadet with Question
    • (uncredited)
    David Keir
    • Number 23
    • (uncredited)
    Norman Pierce
    • Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    George Street
    • Waiter
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Victor
    Charles Victor
    • Customer in Night Club
    • (uncredited)
      • Maurice Elvey
      • Gerald Elliott
      • Ian Hay
      • Edgar Wallace(story "The India Rubber Man")
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    • Trivia
      First film of Charles Victor.
    • Quotes

      Maggs: There's a bloke been waiting to see you for over an hour.

      Inspector Elk: Who is it?

      Maggs: Sanford's the name - from Chicago. Place in America near that there 'Ollywood.

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      Follows The Frog (1937)

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    7/10
    Inspector Elk versus The Frog
    Gordon Harker reprises his role of policeman Elk from 'The Frog' (1937) but here he has been promoted to Inspector. He leads the investigation against a criminal who radios in his instructions to his gang via a massive curio figure of a frog with beaming eyes. The gang are all known by numbers and they carry out raids and shootings and explosions in London. Chicago Dale claims to be an American policeman visiting Scotland Yard to learn about their detection methods. Elk tries to check with Chicago Police but their Chief has just been murdered so there is no corroboration of Dale's story.

    Mum Oak's riverside bar is a great setting with it's stable door type entrance a few feet away from the lapping water of the River Thames. Inside is a cupboard safe and a back door that leads to a yard and a cellar convenient to carry out secret activities. Mum Oaks (Una O'Connor) is a fence who is well known to Inspector Elk and she is in with other dubious characters like Captain Dutchy and Dandy Lane. She treats her brother Golly in a harsh manner and all of the people at Mum Oaks' place come across as 1930s contemporary updates of Dickensian characters.

    Inspector Elk is usually attired in a grubby raincoat and carries a brolly which he uses to rap on doors. He never knows whether he can trust Chicago Dale or not. He is under constant threat from such things as an exploding phone box and poison gas vapors disguised as London fog and a booby-trapped river police boat. Fortunately he carries a gas mask when he is trapped in Mum Oaks' cellar that is filling with poison gas. This is a good entertaining mystery filled with incidents.
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      • September 1939 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • German
      • French
      • English
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      • British Lion Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Herbert Wilcox Productions
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    • 1 hour 13 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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