Full of the master's bounce, typical of the period, featuring a suspenseful tea party (who else could do that?) with 'Beechcroft Manningtree', a punch-up at a café where the frames are full of energy, police in a cart of pigs (any opportunity to make them look stupid), and especially the joke of "we're combing the forest now" (shot of flashlights in dark wood). And, not just escaping from the police, but ending up in a collapsing mine...
OK, Derrick de Marney and Nova Pilbeam are not the most interesting couple but then we do have that amazing shot in the ballroom which goes in so close (Bernard Knowles on camera, operated by Stephen Dade - also
Sabotage, Secret Agent and
Rome Express), Edward Rigby as a tramp, and Uncle Alfred Junge's barn design:
Charles Bennett contributes to screenplay.
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