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The Flying Squad
The Flying Squad is a 1940 British crime film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks and Jack Hawkins. It was based on a 1928 novel by Edgar Wallace in which the officers of the Flying Squad attempt to tackle a drug-smuggling organisation. In the past, the novel had been filmed in 1929 and 1932.
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| author | Edgar Wallace |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Herbert Brenon |
| editor | Lionel Tomlinson Monica Kimick |
| genre | crime drama |
| musicBy | Marr Mackie |
| producer | Walter C. Mycroft |
| productionCompany | Associated British Picture Corporation |
| publisher | Pathé Pictures International |
| theme | police police procedural |