Blake of Scotland Yard
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Bob Hill
Ralph Byrd
Herbert Rawlinson
Joan Barclay
Lloyd Hughes
Dickie Jones
Film Details
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Synopsis
Baron Polinka, Count Basil, Doctor Marshall and little Bobby Mason all attend a demonstration for The League of Nations of a death ray invented by Sir James Blake of Scotland Yard, his niece, Hope Mason, and Jerry Sheehan, which is taking place at Blake's London house. Blake hopes that the ray, which is capable of destroying a ship two hundred miles off the coast, will put an end to all war. Meanwhile, arch villain The Scorpion and his crew plot to steal the death ray. They tunnel under the house and hold Bobby hostage, forcing Blake to turn over the invention. Blake and Inspector Henderson, accompanied by Hope, Jerry and Marshall, follow The Scorpion to Paris. There, The Scorpion captures Blake and plans to use the death ray on him and his friends, but Jerry and Henderson rescue him. In the confusion, The Scorpion escapes with the ray. Back in London, Marshall is revealed to be The Scorpion and Blake turns the ray over to the League of Nations. Jerry then asks Hope to be his girl friend.
Director
Bob Hill
Cast
Ralph Byrd
Herbert Rawlinson
Joan Barclay
Lloyd Hughes
Dickie Jones
Lucille Lund
Nick Stuart
Sam Flint
Gail Newbury
Jimmy Aubrey
Ted Lorch
George De Normand
Bob Terry
William Farrel
Frank Wayne
Dick Curtis
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
This is a feature length version of a fifteen-part serial, which was released earlier in 1937. Although the feature was issued a certificate by the PCA on May 27, 1937, and was accepted for exhibition in New York on October 30, 1937, no national release date or reviews have been located. According to information in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library, the feature consisted entirely of material that was in the serial with no additional material added. The credits listed above were taken from a credit sheet for the serial in the MPAA/PCA Collection, and May not exactly reflect the credits of the feature version. The running time was calculated from footage given in NYSA records.
