The Drayton Case

The Drayton Case

1953•26m•6.0/10

Crime

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(1)

During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.

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Production

Merton Park Studios

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Edgar Lustgarten

Edgar Lustgarten

Self: Narrator

Victor Platt

Drayton

Hilda Barry

Mrs. Drayton

John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier

Divisional Superintendent Henley

Vincent Ball

Vincent Ball

Henley's Assistant

Bartlett Mullins

Mr Taylor

Edward Malin

Edward Malin

Caretaker

Geoffrey Bellman

Pathologist

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