Inspector Morley late of Scotland Yard, Episode 10 "Dark Passage" 1952 Lost TV Crime Series, F256
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2020
- What I believe is another lost episode from the 1952 British crime drama series entitled "Inspector Morley late of Scotland Yard". This is episode 10 "Dark Passage", which I understand was either lost or not in circulation currently. This may be the first time it has been seen in many decades. It has a great period feel, I love the way villians don't bother escaping once they are undone...even though they could!
I think 13 of these 25/26 minute dramas were shown on televison in the US in the early 1950s, but the last 6 were not shown in the UK (indeed, I gather none of the episodes may have been shown in the UK, but I am not sure). Though I am fairly sure content from the latter 6 episodes was edited into two films.
The series is perhaps most famed for starring Tod Slaughter as Terence/Patrick Reilly, the arch nemesis of our good detective. This was late in Tod's career, in which he had stood out as a leading actor in horror film and stage melodrama.
Thanks to expert on Todd Slaughter, "Jean-Claude Michel" for his help in providing information about these episodes.
10 DARK PASSAGE
Tod Slaughter....................Terence Reilly / Patrick Reilly (his brother)
Patrick Barr....................... Inspector John Morley
Tucker McGuire................. Eileen Trotter
Frank Hawkins................... Inspector Cranshaw
Dorothy Primrose.............. Mrs. Hawkins
Andrew Laurence.............. Penshaw
Ian Fleming....................... police doctor
Carl Lacey......................... Mr. Hawkins
Charles Leno..................... Crossley
Joanna Black..................... waitress
Jill Dunkley....................... telephonist
Walter Horsbrugh............. Brent
Ian Sadler......................... Brown
Jack Midwinter................. policeman
Thank you to the person that left the nice comment about this channel. I am sorry I think YT is not showing some comments. But I saw this and replied...thanks for this.
Channels like yours are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in archive tv.Take my hat off to you!
Thank u for your efforts in bringing this show to us. I love the old time tv detectives
You are welcome...if only there were more to find!
@@maxustaxus You are doing your best, can't expect more than that. Best regards
Thanks for an interesting British show
I'm getting through these episodes nicely, it's sometimes nice when a show is bite sized and not an hour long.
What a find! I confirm: this is a hyper-rare episode of this series, since never seen in Great Britain, whether on television or in the cinema. He was only featured on American television in 1953 ... and never seen again elsewhere. And what a joy to see the great Tod Slaughter again, here in a double role!
Hello Jean-Claude. Thanks once again for your information in this and your other post. It is great to learn that this is as suspected a bit of a find. Unfortunately I don't have False Alibi, but I do also have the Scarlet Letter, The Green Eye, and the Final Showdown in this series (and of course Reilly at Bay). I will no doubt put these on in due course. It has been very interesting following the story of these films...and from a film maker fairly close to my home!
Tod Slaughter always played the slimy, smiling villain to perfection. Unfortunate that he wasn't active in films for longer than he did.
Yes,he was an old-school melodrama actor,who clearly has great fun playing cads and bounders!The original Sweeney tod.
I am very grateful for all your efforts and this is truly a pleasure to watch for me a man born in 1947!
That is a kind thing to say, it was a pleasure to be able to show this sort of film.
And for me, a female born in 1949. Many thanks 🕵️👏🇺🇸🎭
Thank you for sharing these wonderful old episodes of a series I have never seen. I would never have seen them originally like most of us I imagine much too young.
You're very welcome!
Great episode. These are a delight, traffic free streets, Lyons’ Corner Houses’ and Nippys. Thank you, top channel.👍🏻
Still glad you like it...
Begging your pardon, what is a nippy?
@@patriciajrs46 That’s what the waitresses were called as they were always ‘nipping’ between tables and different customers. 😂
Okay. Thank you.
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Hi, many thanks for your comment...I barely feel equal to it, but it is very kind of you to say so!
Yes they caught them,good show!!!!!
Thank you.
Thank you 🤗
You’re welcome 😊
The story of "Murder at Scotland Yard" (the "feature") is even more complicated. Like "King of the Underworld" it was submitted to the British Board of Film Censors the very same day (May 27, 1952) but on a shorter version with a running time of only 57 mins - so apparently made of only two episodes. I don't think this shorter version was released, I didn't find any trace of this. But two years later it was re-submitted for a new certificate, for extra-footage, with a total running time of 75 mins. This new edition was composed of "Murder at Scotland Yard" - yes, same title as the "feature", "Reilly at Bay" - recently posted by Maxustaxus - and "False Alibi" (this episode being still "lost"...
Great show.
Good stuff!
London looked a grim bleak place to me in the 50’s, I was born in 56 raised at Brentwood, did see the tail end of it around 59, and did see some Trolleybuses at Aldgate.
Always a good show.
you really have to wonder why people don't discuss it over the phone, maybe theywould not get shots so often otherwise
I was born in England one year before this film was made.
I've always read this as if ''Late'' were the man's last name. I expected his name to be Inspector Morley Late. I wonder why they phrase it the way they do?
I have always found it a bit clunky myself...I assume it comes from the archaic adjective form of "Late" (c. 1400 onwards) as "being or occurring in the near, or not too distant past" (of late: www.etymonline.com/word/late). Today, this sense of late is still used in the related phrase indicating recently died/departed, i.e., the funeral of the late Mr Grundy. I guess here late indicates that Morley was in the recent past with Scotland Yard (i.e., until recently but now no longer).
@@maxustaxus Thank you, it was a bit of tongue in cheek there.
The Brits have a flair for understatement and I took a little bit of a poke at them for their colloquialism.
00:49 " Could you spell that, please?''
Wearing pumps is not the most sensible choice for someone who'll be on her feet most of the day. So silly!
Very true to life this one is, isn't it - not. A cop walks in with his old mate and sees a dead body. So they stomp about destroying evidence then when the wife turns up, they let her wreck the crime scene as well. In real life one policeman would enter and check the body for life. If dead he would then seal off the scene and call in. Until the specialists arrive nobody gets to touch anything.
At 0:50 you see the secretary jiggle the phone hooks when the caller (now dead) stops talking. They often did that in movies and TV shows - I always wondered why - it won't achieve anything other than perhaps terminate the call. I finally found out - one of the very earliest automatic telephone exchanges in the USA had an extra fortunitous feature - by blipping the phone hook if you hung up by mistake, the called phone's bell would ring and you could re-establish the call. It only worked from the calling end, not the receiving end as depicted in this film. The word got around and folk started trying it on operator connected calls. On some switchboards the resulting flashing of a lamp would alert the operator, and she could immediately call the same or another party for you. She wouldn't know the number - you had to again tell her. It won't work on automatic systems of later design. But it had become a standard dramatic trick used by scriptwriters.
The one I find really really funny (and I can't remember which episode it is), is when Morley returns to his small car to find a dead body in it. He just pushes it out of the way, says how irritated he is by this, and then drives of with the body next to him! I guess he dropped the body off at the morgue on his way home...very understated.
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That is one "Frumpy" secretary! ....the type jealousy wives would pick 4 their husband!
the video image is too poor, you need to fix it more
Not really. I have "no need" to fix anything. But if you would like to see better footage, "you need" to find another copy somewhere. Thanks for the feedback anyway.
@@maxustaxus Splendid answer. Some people think that the quality they think they want is easily achieved. Ha ha! They don't realize that some of these black and whites are not even available to be aired again.
@@maxustaxus I have only just seen this great video that you have posted. Thank you so much for posting this video. I really appreciate that you have done this for us, your viewers. I have subscribed to your great channel. Thanks again. All my very best wishes from Rose.👍