| Hyde Park Corner | |
| Director: | Sinclair Hill |
| Producer: | Harcourt Templeman |
| Starring: | Gordon Harker Binnie Hale Eric Portman Gibb McLaughlin |
| Music: | Louis Levy |
| Cinematography: | Cyril Bristow |
| Editing: | Michael Hankinson |
| Studio: | Grosvenor Films |
| Distributor: | Pathé Pictures International |
| Runtime: | 85 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Hyde Park Corner is a 1935 British comedy crime film, directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Eric Portman. Harker portrays a policeman investigating a crime in 1930s London, which proves to have its origins in the 1780s.[1] The film takes its name from Hyde Park Corner in Central London where the events of the film occur. It was based on a play by Walter C. Hackett. The film was made at Welwyn Studios.
In the 1780s, after an evening of illegal gambling, two of the participants fight a duel in which the wronged party is killed by a villain, who has just cheated to win a newly built house at Hyde Park Corner from him. Officer Cheatle of the Bow Street Runners is able to arrest those present for gambling, but is unable to prove that a murder has occurred.
A hundred and fifty years later, the Officer's great-grandson, Constable Cheatle, is intrigued by reports of another murder at the same house at Hyde Park Corner. Cheatle sees this as a way of fulfilling his ambition to join the plainclothes detective branch. His attempts to solve the case are initially interrupted by Sophie, a petty criminal whom he arrests while she is shoplifting in a department store. Eventually, with her help, he is able to uncover the true culprit of the crime that has its roots in the fatal evening in the eighteenth century.