Scotland Yard (1930)
1h 15m
Running Time
October 19, 1930Release Date
Scotland Yard (1930)
1h 15m
Running Time
October 19, 1930Release Date
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Plot.
A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty. After enlisting for WWI to escape prosecution, his face is disfigured in combat, and plastic surgeons mistakenly give him the banker's face. As the banker is conveniently MIA, it gives the criminal the opportunity to plan a bank heist from the inside and also to get closer to the banker's wife.
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Cast & Crew.
Edmund Lowe
Sir John Lasher / Dakin Barrolles
Joan Bennett
Xandra, Lady Lasher
Donald Crisp
Charles Fox
Georges Renavent
Dr. Dean
Lumsden Hare
Sir Clive Heathcote
David Torrence
Captain Graves
Barbara Leonard
Nurse Cecilia
Norman Ainsley
Reggie, Xandra's Suitor
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 19, 1930
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 15m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
detective
world war i
impersonation
scotland yard
Wiki.
Scotland Yard is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film directed by William K. Howard, written by Garrett Fort, and starring Edmund Lowe, Joan Bennett, Donald Crisp, Georges Renavent, Lumsden Hare and David Torrence. It was released on October 19, 1930, by Fox Film Corporation. It is based on the 1929 play Scotland Yard by Denison Clift. In 1941, the film was remade under the same title.
The film depicts identity theft. A financier who went missing in action during World War I is impersonated by a swindler.