INGLEWOOD TALKIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 3

INGLEWOOD TALKIES.

"INSPECTOR HORNLEIGH." If you can spot the murderer before the final scene of "Inspector Holmleigh," the exciting mystery film which will be showing at the Inglewood talkies to-morrow night, you should be running Scotland Yard. For even the redoubtable Hornleigh, an amazing sleuth if ever there was one, is completely baffled by the criminal until a few seconds before the mystery is solved in one of the most thrilling climaxes the screen has ever shown. Gordon Harker gives a grand characterisation in this 20th Century production as the detective who collects stamps ancl murderers with equal ease in the Bryan Wallace screen play based on the internationally famous character "Inspector Hornleigh." Alastair Sim will win your heart (and your laughter) at once with his delightful portrayal of the bungling aide, Sergeant Bingham. The inspector is called in when the porter of an English roadside inn is found murdered by a knife in a London rooming house. The chief clue is the Chancellor's budget bag, which is found in a ncarby river. Two more blood-curdling murders are committed and every one in the cast is under suspicion before Inspector Hornleigh reaches the spectacular solution. You'll thrill to the spine-chilling moments and you'll howl at the side-splitting humour Robert T. Kane has woven into the excellent screen play. Eugene Forde is responsible for its brisk direction and a splendid cast, headed by Harker, Sim, Hugh Williams, Steve Geray, Wally Patch, Edvvard Underdown and Miki Hood, keeps the mood of mystery intact throughout the 20th Century-Fox release.