Code of Scotland Yard

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The shop at sly corner, on tubi streaming, is called code of scotland yard on imdb. When a shop assistant overhears a conversation by the shop owner, it sets off a chain of events. Heiss (homolka) has been using his shop to fence and sell stolen goods. Archie, his employee (griffith) tries to blackmail him. But it doesn't go as planned. Good intrigue. Some twists and turns. The sound and picture quality are excellent. Good suspense as the coppers track down the killer. Directed by george king, right at the end of his working years. He only directed one more after this. Based on the play by edward percy. Homolka will be nominated for best supporting actor for "I remember mama". It's pretty good. Made in post war britain. Muriel pavlow (plays margaret) married co-star derek farr... he plays robert graham!

Prior reviewers have given the plot line, so I won't reiterate those details. This is a gripping movie, well-paced, and mostly logically developed. Performances are mostly very good, with the exception of Muriel Pavlow, who is passable - however, her representation of violin playing is so substandard as to be laughable. It can't have been so difficult to find a REAL violin player (even a poor one!) who could coordinate fingering and stroking much, much better to the music played, who could also perform the minimum acting required of this ingenue role. The casting director and producer should have shopped around music conservatories, small orchestras, etc., to find some pretty young girl who could actually play the violin, and then her representational playing could have been dubbed by a better player, as it was in this movie. Viewers of Mary Astor movies may remember her playing the piano in "The Great Lie" of 1941, and being dubbed by a superior piano player. That worked because Astor actually played the piano fairly well herself, and could match finger moves well to the notes heard. The more difficult passages were simply "off camera." Here, long shots were frequently used but still didn't cure the blatant problem That was hole #1. Hole #2 is that we are asked to believe that Heiss throws in the towel when he is well in the clear of the murder; he has not been identified as being one of the two men who dumped the body. The other man who dumped the body is dead. How Fellowes obtained the "legacy" money may be an open question, but it does not incriminate Heiss directly, as Fellowes may have been blackmailing someone else, or had some other unsavory money source. Pavlow's doctor-fiancé tells Heiss that an item that was on the mantelpiece, then in Fellowes' pocket, proves Fellowes returned to the shop on the night of the murder. So what? All that cool-customer Heiss needed to suggest was that Fellowes may well have returned, unbeknownst to himself, and just pocketed the item, and then left without seeing Heiss. Fellowes could have entered the shop surreptitiously - an open window? did he still have a key? was the door unlocked? - no need for suicide here. That's hole #2. Otherwise, a fine movie that kept the viewer rooting for the old man..

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This is a most enjoyable film classic in the vintage 1940s tradition. The opening segment, as the credits fade out against the backdrop of a cold, dark, night correlate with the sense of mystery and intrigue suggested in the title. There's something warm and inviting, here for the aficionado. Although shot in 1947, the film has a familiar Dickensian feel to it; there's the antique store that features as the central setting (shades of "The Old Curiosity Shop"), there's Kenneth Griffith who lurks ominously like Uriah Heep (from "David Copperfield" and Kathleen Harrison, that perennial favourite, is the archetypal Victorian housekeeper. Muriel Pavlow's character, although not fully explored, has some resemblance to a Dickensian heroine. Thickly moustachioed, Oskar Homolka (cigar-puffing, piercing eyes and busy eyebrows), in the role of protagonist, delivers a masterful performance (can one ever forget him after watching him in whichever role he plays?). He and Griffith are the driving forces that propel this absorbing drama. For one relatively new to acting, Griffith delivers a convincing performance. Beneath the superficial layer of criminal activity, the film goes deeper to touch on, among other issues, the nature of evil which in Griffith's case appears to be an inherent trait. In the case of Homolka: is he a tragic figure, does he evoke a sense of pathos, does he earn our sympathy? These are some of the questions which the view faces at the film unfolds. The 1940s was the highpoint in British cinema and it's not difficult to see why this film is so highly rated in the canon. PS: If you are a lover of classical music, you will enjoy a bonus!

Any film that can overcome a major hurdle like convincing the audience that Oscar Homolka - with THAT accent - is French has to be taken seriously. Homolka, who was actually Austrian and copped an Oscar in his very next film, I Remember Mama, playing a Norwegian, is mostly associated with mittel Europeans and walks away with this film despite solid support from the likes of Kenneth Griffith, Gary Marsh, Derek Farr and his new real-life wife Muriel Pavlov and an uncredited Diana Dors as Griffith's girl friend. It's a solid drama with Antiques dealer Homolka dabbling in a little fencing on the side to help gifted violinist daughter Pavlov further her career. Employee Griffith catches on, blackmails Homolka and, not unnaturally it all ends in tears. It's barely 90 minutes but hugely entertaining.

This film has an excellent cast.Kenneth Griffiths being very nasty as the blackmailing Archie.Gary Marsh being his usual jovial policeman.Bits from Kathleen Harrison and Irene Handel.However towering over them all is Oscar Hamolka and his expressive eyebrows.He steals every scene he is in,not just in this film but every film he appeared in.His is an excellent performance which keeps the film going after the murder of Archie.However the film does rely on an unlikely contrivance to bring the film to its slightly tame ending.What on earth was Irene Handel doing wandering around in the woods late at night?Due to her presence the murder eventually unravels.