Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It Explained

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Director:	Walter Forde
Producer:	Edward Black (producer)
Editing:	R. E. Dearing
Runtime:	87 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English

Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It is a 1941 British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert and Edward Chapman. It was the third and final film adaptation of the Inspector Hornleigh stories.

It was released in America by 20th-Century Fox under the title Mail Train.

Plot summary

Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham join the army in an effort to uncover a ring of German spies.^[1]

Cast

• Gordon Harker as Inspector Hornleigh
• Alastair Sim as Sergeant Bingham
• Phyllis Calvert as Mrs. Wilkinson
• Edward Chapman as Mr. Blenkinsop
• Charles Oliver as Dr. Wilkinson
• Raymond Huntley as Dr. Kerbishley
• Percy Walsh as Inspector Blow
• David Horne as Commissioner
• Peter Gawthorne as Colonel
• Wally Patch as Sergeant Major
• Betty Jardine as Daisy
• O. B. Clarence as Professor Mackenzie
• John Salew as Mr. Tomboy
• Cyril Cusack as Postal Sorter
• Bill Shine as Hotel Porter
• Sylvia Cecil
• Edward Underdown
• Marie Makine
• Richard Cooper

Soundtrack

• "The Beer Barrel Polka" (written by Lew Brown, Wladimir A. Timm, Jaromir Vejvoda & Vasek Zeman)
• "Jungle Lullaby" (written by Art Noel, Don Pelosi and John Rivers)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It. https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221018/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37676. dead. 13 January 2009. British Film Institute. 20 April 2014.