Movie: The Drayton Case

Top 8 Billed Cast

Edgar Lustgarten
Edgar Lustgarten

Self: Narrator

Victor Platt
Victor Platt

Drayton

Hilda Barry
Hilda Barry

Mrs. Drayton

John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier

Divisional Superintendent Henley

Vincent Ball
Vincent Ball

Henley's Assistant

Bartlett Mullins
Bartlett Mullins

Mr Taylor

Edward Malin
Edward Malin

Caretaker

Geoffrey Bellman
Geoffrey Bellman

Pathologist

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    During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.

  • Release Date

    1953-02-01

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    English
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