Inspector Hornleigh (1939)

Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), along with bumbling sidekick Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) investigate a murder involving the theft of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s bag. The murder leads the Inspector on to an inn run by Bill Gordon (Hugh Williams), and then the home of chief suspect Kavanos (Steve Geray), a foreign millionaire. Bill becomes yet another murder victim before Hornleigh and Bingham uncover a plot to profit from advance knowledge of the government budget details.

1939, 76 mins, B&W