Watch options. Storyline Edit. Comedy Crime Sport Thriller. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia The football match from which the main action sequences were taken was between Arsenal and Brentford, and took place on Saturday 6th May with The Bees playing in a a special striped kit to simulate The Trojans closer shots feature the Oxford and Cambridge Blues as the Trojans.
Goofs Footballer Doyce collapses on the football field and is pronounced dead, his girlfriend dashes to his flat to retrieve some letters and as she's leaving the hall porter is seen to be looking at a paper with the headline about Doyce's death which is some what too early. Quotes [Arsenal manager giving pre-game talk] George Allison Higley and music by Daniel E. User reviews 19 Review.
Top review. Interesting curio for soccer fans and vintage mystery lovers. Arsenal Football Club were the leading lights of English soccer in the 's and this diverting ,and very British ,movie is an attempt to capitalise on the acclaim they rightly had --and still enjoy today. A star member of an amateur team playing a charity match at the Arsenal ground in North London is killed and Scotland Yard is called in to investigate.
The Inspector -played with tongue firmly in cheek by Leslie Banks-is a decidedly eccentric character ,one who sports a range of diverse headgear throughout. His methods are effective however and the case brought to a successful conclusion.
Thorold Dickinson directs with shrewd attention to detail and the movie while no masterpiece works as a murder mystery while the little utilised soccer background adds interest especially for students of the game curious to see how the media of the time treated "the beautiful game" Guest slots from Arsenal stars of the period add interest.
Details Edit. Release date November United Kingdom. United Kingdom. Naylor S. Schofield R. Sturdy George Swindin R. Has there ever been a great non-documentary film involving a good, realistic representation of football on screen? Well this is certainly not it the only one I can offer is the football scene in Kes. This football-set murder mystery is a time-capsule, a relic from a different age, but it is quite fun watching quirky Inspector Anthony Slade with a penchant for lots of different hats , played by Leslie Banks, solve this crime while all the time wanting to be back at Scotland Yard directing his theatrical revue.
The film starts off with an extended newsreel review of an upcoming charity football match between the mighty Arsenal and fictional amateur side The Trojans, including introducing all the members of both…. According to this film, Scotland Yard promoted officers based on ability, and so when a murder needed investigated the best man for the job was deployed and went about his business as only he could.
The actual mystery is not so much a mystery as a revenge killing of a misogynistic user who probably had it coming. The football as my good friend letterboxd. Arsenal are playing top amateur side The Trojans in a charity match, when one of the Trojans drops dead in the middle of the game, and it soon becomes clear that it's a case of murder. As I write this, with Arsenal lie at the bottom of the league without even a goal, let alone a point to their name, some might suggest that a game against a non-professional team might be the only one they stand a chance of winning, something which, as it turns out, they fail to do here, mostly because the games keep getting abandoned, what with deaths and arrests in the middle of the games.
Also starring Ian McLean. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Leonard Gribble, which was published in this year, the story concerns a Scotland Yard superintendent Leslie Banks who examines the murder of an amateur footballer Anthony Bushell in the middle of a charity soccer match against Arsenal at Highbury.
Leslie Banks gives a good performance in his part as Anthony Slade, the Scotland Yard inspector who is determined to find out who is responsible for murdering the footballer on the pitch. Whether you need be a fan of football to enjoy this is a mute point given most of the drama is off-pitch and how unrecognisable it all is to contemporary eyes: very….
Review by Rutledal. I did however discover through this a genuine Norwegian movie star in Greta Gynt, who worked in British films in the pre and post war era and who is by virtue unknown in Norway today.
This seems like a lukewarm start to this journey, but idk what I expected. It's a murder mystery from a long time ago, but having it set in Arsenal seemed like a promising premise.
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