Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944) DVD-R

Starring Edgar Barrier, Stephanie Bachelor, C. Aubrey Smith, Henry
Stephenson, Lionel Atwill
Directed by George Blair

Print: black/white
Runtime: 68 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated
in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After
losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight,
prepares for the next war by planting a spy in the British Admiralty. Edgar
Barrier plays the dual role of the German spy and his British twin brother.
When one twin is killed, the other assumes his identity. The question: is
the surviving brother the "good" one or the bad? It is up to C. Aubrey
Smith, cast as Scotland Yard inspector Sir Christopher Belt, to sort out
the mystery. Though it owes a great deal to the aforementioned
Oppenheim yarn, Secrets of Scotland Yard is actually based on a novel by
Denison Clift, who also wrote the screenplay.