Colonel March Investigates (1955)

Directed by

Cy Endfield

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three short mystery stories are knitted together into one film. Each tale involves strange crimes that need to be solved by a police colonel, a detective from Scotland Yard.

detective workmysterioussteadypuzzle-likelow-keyclassicinquisitiveepisodic

What happens

Colonel March Investigates is a 1953 British film directed by Cy Endfield. The film comprises the three pilot episodes of the TV series Colonel March of Scotland Yard that were filmed in 1952, starring Boris Karloff. These episodes were "Hot Money", "Death in the Dressing Room" and "The New Invisible Man". all adaptations of stories from the Department of Queer Complaints collection by John Dickson Carr (writing as Carter Dickson). The screenplay was credited to "Leo Davis", disguising the involvement of blacklisted screenwriters Abraham Polonsky and Walter Bernstein. The Colonel March TV series premiered first in the United States from Dec. 1954 to Spring of 1955, with a total of 26 episodes. It was broadcast on television in England in 1955 on Associated Television (ITV London, weekends), on 26 consecutive Saturday evenings from September 24, 1955 until March 17, 1956. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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