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Hyde Park Corner
Hyde Park Corner
Directed by	Sinclair Hill
Written by	D. B. Wyndham-Lewis ; Selwyn Jepson ; Walter C. Hackett (play)
Produced by	Harcourt Templeman
Starring	Gordon Harker ; Binnie Hale ; Eric Portman ; Gibb McLaughlin
Cinematography	Cyril Bristow
Edited by	Michael Hankinson
Music by	Louis Levy
Production; company	Grosvenor Films
Distributed by	Pathé Pictures International
Release date	22 November 1935
Running time	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.

Synopsis edit

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.