The Drayton Case

The Drayton Case
Directed by	Ken Hughes
Produced by	Alec C. Snowden executive Nat Cohen Stuart Levy
Written by	Ken Hughes
Starring	Victor Platt Vincent Ball John Le Mesuirer
Narrated by	Edgar Lustgarten
Cinematography	John Wiles
Edited by	Derek Holding
Production company	Merton Park Studios
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated (UK)
Release dates	February 1953
Running time	26 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Drayton Case is a 1953 British short crime film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Edgar Lustgarten, Hilda Barry and John Le Mesurier.^[1]

Shown originally as a support feature in cinemas, it became the first of the Scotland Yard TV series.^[2]

Plot

During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman. It turns out she was killed by her husband Charles Drayton.

Cast

Vincent Platt as Drayton
Hilda Barry as Elizabeth Drayton
John Le Mesurier as Div. Spt. Henley
Victor Ball as Henley’s assistant

References

↑ "The Drayton Case (1953)". BFI.
↑ Scotland Yard at CTVA accessed 25 June 2014

External links

The Drayton Case at the Internet Movie Database
The Drayton Case at BFI

Films directed by Ken Hughes

Wide Boy (1952)
The Drayton Case (1953)
Black 13 (1953)
The Dark Stairway (1953)
The House Across the Lake (1954)
The Brain Machine (1955)
Little Red Monkey (1955)
Confession (1955)
Timeslip (1955)
Joe MacBeth (1955)
Murder Anonymous (1955)
Wicked as They Come (1956)
The Long Haul (1957)
Jazz Boat (1960)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
In the Nick (1960)
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
Of Human Bondage (1964)
Drop Dead Darling (1966)
Casino Royale (1967)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Cromwell (1970)
The Internecine Project (1974)
Alfie Darling (1975)
Sextette (1978)
Night School (1981)

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