| 词条 | Inspector Hornleigh |
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Each week Inspector Hornleigh interrogated various witnesses, one of whom makes some slip which convicts him. The radio audience were invited to match their wits against Inspector Hornleigh's, with the mistake the witness made not being disclosed until the end of the programme.[2] Between 1938 and 1940 a trilogy of films was made based upon the character, starring Gordon Harker in the title role: Inspector Hornleigh (1938), Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939), and Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It (1940). All the films were made at Pinewood Studios in England. In the films, Hornleigh was a cockney detective with the Metropolitan Police. He was accompanied by his slight and inept Scottish sidekick, Sergeant Bingham, played by Alastair Sim.[3] Whereas the BBC radio series had been a straight whodunit, the films were made as comedies. Despite their popularity, no further films were made because Sim wished to move on to other projects in order to avoid being typecast. A subsequent television adaptation was made in West Germany in 1961, with Helmut Peine appearing as Hornleigh.[4] FilmsThe character appears in:
References1. ^http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=asc&q=%22INSPECTOR+HORNLEIGH%22#search 2. ^http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/national/daventry/1938-05-30#at-19.00 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.alastairsim.net/Film/inspectorhornleigh.htm|title=Inspector Hornleigh|publisher=}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37675|title=Inspector Hornleigh|work=BFI}} External links
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