The Flying Squad | |
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Directed by | Herbert Brenon |
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Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
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Music by | Marr Mackie |
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Distributed by | Pathé Pictures International |
Release date | 14 October 1940 |
Running time | 64 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Flying Squad, also known as Edgar Wallace's The Flying Squad is a 1940 British crime film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks and Jack Hawkins. [1] It was based on a 1928 novel by Edgar Wallace, which had been previously filmed under the same title in 1929 (silent) and1932.
Officers of the Flying Squad attempt to tackle a drug-smuggling organisation.
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Not very good." [2]
TV Guide wrote, "routine stuff, just as unimaginatively done here as it was in the 1932 film of the same name". [3]
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