Inspector Morley Late of Scotland Yard TV Series: The Green Eye, Tod Slaughter & Patrick Barr. F350

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  • Another of the episodes of Inspector Morely Late of Scotland Yard. This was produced at Bushey Film Studios in the early 1950s, and starred the incomparable Tod Slaughter, and Patrick Barr. Some of these episodes were thought missing until recently. These were originally aired on the American network TV station WGN-TV and the broadcast dates appear below. I am unsure whether this is the first or second episode in the series (I suspect the second having seen this). However, I believe this episode has not been seen in any form since the 1950s, so please enjoy it now. (apologies for the sound, it is better, but I still struggle to get this right on these films with my equipement).
    Thanks once again to Jean-Claude Michel who is an encyclopedia of knowledge on this once forgotten series, and his helpful advice.
    01 - January 24, 1953 -
    02 - January 31, 1953 -
    03 - February 7, 1953 - The Case of the Scarlet Letters
    04 - February 14, 1953 - Silent Witness
    05 - February 21, 1953 - The Red Flame
    06 - February 28, 1953 - Rough Justice
    07 - March 7, 1953 - Murder at Scotland Yard
    08 - March 14, 1953 - The False Alibi
    09 - March 21, 1953 - Reilly at Bay
    10 - March 28, 1953 - Dark Passage
    11 - April 4, 1953 - Murder in the Strand
    12 - April 11, 1953 - The Showdown
    13 - April 18, 1953 - most probably "Death at the Festival" (later released in British theaters as "Murder at the grange")

Комментарии • 51

  • @dalanmanbros8311
    @dalanmanbros8311 Месяц назад +2

    This is a most enjoyable series! Good balance of grit and lightness. I really like the chemistry between Morely and his "Girl Friday", Eileen.

  • @vegas1a
    @vegas1a 2 года назад +11

    Started the day with 2 of these rare episodes, now I have 7. Thank you for uploading these gems!🙂🙂

    • @maxustaxus
      @maxustaxus  2 года назад +4

      That is great....nothing like that feeling that a collection has been added to!

  • @footfault
    @footfault 4 года назад +20

    London scenes in the 50s, such a treasure.

    • @lindacharles6581
      @lindacharles6581 3 года назад +1

      Absolutely, I love it too.

    • @footfault
      @footfault 3 года назад

      @Trevor Emmitt Thank you, this is the first time I've heard of that site.

    • @Prof.Tarfeather
      @Prof.Tarfeather 2 года назад

      @@lindacharles6581 7

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 5 месяцев назад +1

      Rationing was still in effect in Britain, they don't show such scenes.

    • @algiles881
      @algiles881 4 месяца назад

      It looks like Soho Squate where Inspector Morley's office is,.

  • @TigerDominic-uh1dv
    @TigerDominic-uh1dv 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks Nice Series 👍 I ❤ Good Detective Series. 😊

  • @moonshadow3946
    @moonshadow3946 Год назад +3

    Thank you for posting these videos. Thank you also for providing captions. I really appreciate it.👏

  • @misyd72
    @misyd72 4 года назад +9

    Great-a rare one! Thanks so much for sharing!

  • @pauljessome5718
    @pauljessome5718 2 года назад +2

    Simple entertainment that does not require one to over think. Nice
    Paul in Canada

    • @rogerrendzak8055
      @rogerrendzak8055 11 месяцев назад +2

      And what's the matter, with over-thinking???

    • @robertwalker5521
      @robertwalker5521 2 месяца назад

      ​@@rogerrendzak8055
      My head hurts, now.

  • @ERGORSE
    @ERGORSE 3 года назад +7

    Nice episode & dialogue: Spike Mulligan “the blithering idiot”...thanks maxustaxus, great channel.👍🏻

    • @joemackey1950
      @joemackey1950 2 года назад

      So, that was Spike's part time job when the Goon Show wasn't on the air. :)

  • @ausbrum
    @ausbrum 2 года назад +1

    The US wasn't linked coast to coast until 1955, and there were a number of small independent stations which needed content. Hence programs like this one

  • @AnnacolleenEtters
    @AnnacolleenEtters 2 месяца назад

    I love the way the English say "good day", instead of the American "have a nice/good day".

  • @alangiles2763
    @alangiles2763 4 года назад +3

    Some scenes in this film are reinactions of scenes from the 1952 film "King Of The Underworld" which gets shown from time to time on UK channel Talking Pictures (Freeview 81) - the stabbing in Reilly's office for example

    • @maxustaxus
      @maxustaxus  4 года назад +3

      Hi, it is possible that it is the same footage for these "parallel" scenes. I understand that there were attempts to sell the series as originally conceived in America, but when this was unsuccessful, the footage for some of the episodes was re-edited into two films (one being King of the Underworld).

    • @alangiles2763
      @alangiles2763 4 года назад +3

      @@maxustaxus It is wonderful that some previously thought off as lost archive material has come to light. I always remember between The Grove Family (1954-57) and Compact (1962-1965) the BBC tried another twice weekly serial called Starr & Co for much of 1958, but as these were "telerecordings" I suspect they are all lost, and running less than a year was clearly not popular. It was set in an engineering company. There is a wealth of missing material that would run rings round todays "scripted reality" shows, amateur talent contests and PC comedy. Thanks for making it available to us.

    • @todslaughter2
      @todslaughter2 4 года назад +4

      @@alangiles2763 This episode became story #2 in "King of the Underworld" but this is the original version. The last scene (with Patrick Barr & Tucker McGuire) was cut in the "feature" version. The second feature, "Murder at Scotland Yard", released in 1954, is still "lost", but two of the separate episodes were found, one of them has the same title as the feature, and the other being "Reilly at Bay". The missing episode is "The False Alibi". To date only four episodes are still missing (from thirteenth). The British Film Institute also has "A Ghost for Sale", made by the same director at the same studio, with the same three principal actors, but it's not part of the series. It's a horror/fantasy featurette made around large extracts from "The Curse of the Wraydons" (1946, from the same director). "A Ghost for Sale" was released theatrically circa 1954 or 1955. Another series considered as "lost" in Great-Britain - with the exception of 3 or 4 episodes - is "Fabian of the Yard" - but this is totally false, as the entire series (39 episodes, NOT 36 as wrongly mentioned on IMDb) are preserved on 16mm in the Canadian archives. Some years ago I ordered one of them, "Moral Murder", as Tod Slaughter was in this episode.

    • @alangiles2763
      @alangiles2763 4 года назад

      @@todslaughter2 Thanks for the info Jean-Claude. It is amazing how many lost films are not lost. For example a 1947 film known as Night Comes Too Soon and The Ghost of Rashmon Hall which features Valentine Dyall is often claimed to be lost, but it was shown on Channel 4 back in 1992, and I believe there was even a VHS commercial issue. Talking Pictures often find gems, so I am hoping they find that one.

    • @todslaughter2
      @todslaughter2 4 года назад

      @@alangiles2763 I have this movie since decades but I think it's still available from some website.

  • @jacksugden8190
    @jacksugden8190 11 месяцев назад

    Would liked to have visited Hatton Garden of the 1950’s to see are entitled ‘Vintage watches’. Shame I was born in 1956 at Brentwood in Essex.

  • @zaroffhound
    @zaroffhound 10 месяцев назад

    Tod Slaughter...like watching an evil beetle relishing your sideboard, as he chomps your drinks cabinet...

  • @rogerrendzak8055
    @rogerrendzak8055 11 месяцев назад +1

    Phew😚!!! For a sec I thought, that Todd Slaughter was the copper, in this series (like the thumbnail, depicts). How would I know, as I never seen/heard of these🤔⁉️ For we all know, Todd is the 'Master', of bad😉…………
    I noticed that there were, a couple Sherlock Holmes plugs, in this. The 'elementary' remark, and Inspector Morley, donning a disguise (@18:28).

  • @markhughes7927
    @markhughes7927 3 года назад +2

    26:23
    Great jumping snakes!

  • @DavidRice111
    @DavidRice111 3 года назад +1

    Apart from The Scarlet Letters, and The Green Eye, do any other of these episodes feature Tod Slaughter? I love the guy!

    • @maxustaxus
      @maxustaxus  3 года назад

      Hi, Yes...I know that he appears to a greater or lesser extent in every one of the episodes I have posted (and I think that is five).

    • @todslaughter2
      @todslaughter2 3 года назад +1

      Definitely yes. He was the star of the complete series (13 episodes). To date nine of them were found.

  • @nand3576
    @nand3576 3 года назад +2

    The advertisement at the end of the movie “US Savings Bond” an honest savings plan by US government. Not any more 401 K is a scam!

    • @maxb4074
      @maxb4074 Год назад

      The money goes to New York now, not Washington. And the investment/brokerage guys take a nice cut.

  • @1234j
    @1234j 2 года назад

    I want those savings rates!🤣

  • @jimlaguardia8185
    @jimlaguardia8185 3 года назад +3

    This series is remarkably similar to US films of the 30s, showing the Brits were about 15 years behind the Yanks in cinema.

    • @Spectrescup
      @Spectrescup 2 года назад +3

      It 'shows' nothing of the sort, even it might be true. This is not cinema, for a start.

    • @ausbrum
      @ausbrum 2 года назад

      WW2 saw advances in film stock and development of 16 mm in Hollywood, so it was perfect for use in the mass production of film for tv. There was no comparable production level in the UK

    • @todslaughter2
      @todslaughter2 2 года назад +1

      @@ausbrum Incidentally, these TV episodes were shot on 35mm, and were later shown (partially) in British theaters. It was exactly the same for "Colonel March of Scotland Yard", they were all shot on 35mm, I know it because I owned some of the episodes in this format. And the same goes for several other British series on the period.

    • @geoffreycodnett6570
      @geoffreycodnett6570 Год назад

      Pretty obvious these are cheap and cheerful shorts with unknown actors not representing UK cinema rather the supply of cheap filler for TV. Acting is pretty poor and the script lacking. UK TV at the time didn't have adverts until 1956 so generally the length of programme varied. BBC production was higher quality.

    • @geoffreycodnett6570
      @geoffreycodnett6570 Год назад

      @@todslaughter2 50s cinema usually had at least a couple of films plus newsreels and adverts. TV was limited to a single channel until 1956 when ITV arrived. The advert shows it was produced for the USA market as does the use of the word kerosene (fuel for jet engines in the UK then and now) rather than paraffin. I doubt these ever saw light of day on the BBC and only possibly as filler on ITV.

  • @feenix8461
    @feenix8461 8 месяцев назад

    I want the savings plan.

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 2 года назад +1

    Watson, elementary? How cheeky. To me, those really seem to have no plot.

  • @dacidthorn
    @dacidthorn 2 года назад

    Wait did that cop just stand there and watch someone get murdered?

    • @maxb4074
      @maxb4074 Год назад +1

      He was an ex-cop no longer on the force. Private detective. Also he didn't want to jeopardize the kidnap victim, who was still captive.

  • @trevorbailey1486
    @trevorbailey1486 2 года назад +2

    Tod Slaughter? Too delicious. Isn't 'tod' German for 'death'?

    • @joemackey1950
      @joemackey1950 2 года назад +1

      I love Tod Slaughter. He's such a ham!

  • @amyclarke41
    @amyclarke41 3 года назад

    ok