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The Flying Squad is a British film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Brenon with Sebastian Shaw

The Flying Squad (1940)

The Flying Squad
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Length 1h4
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Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating59% 2.9580752.9580752.9580752.9580752.958075

The Flying Squad is a 1940 British crime film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks and Jack Hawkins. It was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace in which the officers of the Flying Squad attempt to tackle a drug-smuggling organisation. The novel had previously been filmed in 1929 and 1932.

Actors

Sebastian Shaw

(Inspector Bradley)Phyllis Brooks

(Ann Perryman)Jack Hawkins

(Mark McGill)Basil Radford

(Sederman)Ludwig Stössel

(Li Yoseph)
And :
Kathleen Harrison
Cyril Smith
Henry Oscar
Kynaston Reeves
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