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The Flying Squad (1929)

The Flying Squad poster
Directed by
Arthur Maude
Genre
silent film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A crime story set in London. It follows police officers battling a gang of criminals.

old-fashionedgrittymysteriouspacedshadowynoirishtensesuspenseful

What happens

The Flying Squad is a 1929 British silent crime film directed by Arthur Maude and starring John Longden, Donald Calthrop and Wyndham Standing. The film was made at Beaconsfield Studios. It was based on the 1928 novel The Flying Squad by Edgar Wallace, which was later remade with sound in 1932 and 1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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