Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It

Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It is a 1941 British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert and Edward Chapman. It was the third and final film adaptation of the Inspector Hornleigh stories.

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Directed by	Walter Forde
Written by	Val Guest Frank Launder J. O. C. Orton Hans Wolfgang Priwin (radio series)
Produced by	Edward Black (producer)
Starring	Gordon Harker Alastair Sim Phyllis Calvert Edward Chapman
Cinematography	Jack E. Cox Arthur Crabtree
Edited by	R. E. Dearing
Music by	Louis Levy[citation needed] (uncredited) Charles Williams[citation needed] (uncredited)
Release date	5 May 1941 (1941-05-05) (UK)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

It was released in America by 20th-Century Fox under the title Mail Train.

Plot summary

Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham join the army in an effort to uncover a ring of German spies.^[1]

Cast

• Gordon Harker as Inspector Hornleigh
• Alastair Sim as Sergeant Bingham
• Phyllis Calvert as Mrs. Wilkinson
• Edward Chapman as Mr. Blenkinsop
• Charles Oliver as Dr. Wilkinson
• Raymond Huntley as Dr. Kerbishley
• Percy Walsh as Inspector Blow
• David Horne as Commissioner
• Peter Gawthorne as Colonel
• Wally Patch as Sergeant Major
• Betty Jardine as Daisy
• O. B. Clarence as Professor Mackenzie
• John Salew as Mr. Tomboy
• Cyril Cusack as Postal Sorter
• Bill Shine as Hotel Porter
• Sylvia Cecil
• Edward Underdown
• Marie Makine
• Richard Cooper

Soundtrack

• "The Beer Barrel Polka" (written by Lew Brown, Wladimir A. Timm, Jaromir Vejvoda & Vasek Zeman)
• "Jungle Lullaby" (written by Art Noel, Don Pelosi and John Rivers)

References

1. "Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2014.

External links

• Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It at IMDb