Gordon Harker
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In films from 1927, British comic actor Gordon Harker had to wait for the advent of sound to take full advantage of his eternal air of cockney belligerence. Perhaps because his cinematic career was launched by director Alfred Hitchcock, Harker seemed... more
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Cast: Bernard Lee Felix Aylmer Gordon Harker Kathleen Harrison Arthur Crabtree
Length: 78min
Based on the Evadne Price-Ken Attiwell stage play, Once a Crook stars Gordon Harker as ex-safecracker Charlie Hopkins. Convinced that Charlie was responsible for his arrest, his former partner The Duke (Bernard Lee) vows to get even our hero. The Duke...
Cast: Lance Comfort Derek Farr Gordon Harker Michael Medwin Philip Saville
Tags: Detective Film
Length: 88min
In the tradition of The Window (1949) and The Yellow Balloon, Bang! You're Dead juxtaposes the innocence of childhood with the bleak realities of the adult world. Two rural British youngsters come across an abandoned gun. One of the boys accidentally...
Cast: Walter Forde Alastair Sim Gordon Harker Phyllis Calvert Edward Underdown
Tags: Spy Film Action Adventure Comedy Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 87min
One of the few "Inspector Hornleigh" films to gain a wide US distribution, Mail Train stars Gordon Harker as Hornleigh and Alastair Sim as his dumb-like-a-fox assistant Sergeant Bingham. Borrowing a bit from the 1939 British box-office hit Night...
Cast: Gordon Harker Sydney Box Muir Mathieson Guy Middleton Megs Jenkins
Length: 83min
One of the few low-budget British programmers to enjoy a reasonably widespread American release, Facts of Love tells its tale in one basic set in a compact 65 minutes. The film weaves three separate romantic subplots into an entertaining unified...
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
Cast: Walter Forde Alastair Sim Gordon Harker Wally Patch Linden Travers
Tags: Comedy Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 90min
In this mystery, the last entry in the Inspector Hornleigh series, Inspector Harker and his assistant take a two-week vacation to the English seaside. Just as the vacation is about to end, a fellow guest in their boardinghouse drives over a cliff and...
Cast: Alastair Sim James B. Clark Gordon Harker Wally Patch Eugene J. Forde
Tags: Police Detective Film Mystery
Length: 76min
Inspector Hornleigh was the first of three lively British crime films inspired by the popular BBC radio serial "Monday Night at Eight". Hornleigh is played by Gordon Harker, while Alastair Sim assumes the comic-relief responsibilities inherent in the...
Cast: Herbert Wilcox Gordon Harker Freddie Young Jack Raymond Ivan Brandt
Length: 68min
Gordon Harker stars as a goonish London cabbie who finds himself up to his brimmed cap in espionage. Harker innocently thwarts an assassination attempt on a Middle-Eastern potentate. The perpetrator is a demonic British oil executive who'll stop at...
Cast: Maurice Elvey Sally Gray Gordon Harker Ernst Thesiger Anthony Havelock-Allan
Tags: Action Comedy Spy Film Action Comedy
Length: 79min
This breezy British action comedy stars Gordon Harker as Albert Rughouse, cockney conductor of a passenger bus running the Victoria Station-Epping Forest route. In his spare time, Albert indulges in magic tricks, become rather proficient at...
Cast: Walter Forde Roddy McDowall Mervyn Johns Gordon Harker Felix Aylmer
Length: 80min
Director Walter Forde, a past master at blending mystery, melodrama and comedy (vide The Ghost Train and Bulldog Jack), is at his best with Saloon Bar. Most of the action takes place during one busy evening in an English pub, with a rich variety of...
Cast: Maurice Elvey Herbert Wilcox Gordon Harker George "Gabby" Hayes Una O'Connor
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 73min
Following a string of mysterious robberies, Scotland Yard assigns its best detective, Inspector Elk, to bring the crooks to justice. The only clue the villains leave at the crime scene is a rendering of a frog. Still that is enough for intrepid Elk to...
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