The Drayton Case

During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.

Cast

Edgar Lustgarten

as Self: Narrator

Victor Platt

as Drayton

Hilda Barry

as Mrs. Drayton

John Le Mesurier

as Divisional Superintendent Henley

Vincent Ball

as Henley's Assistant

Bartlett Mullins

as Mr Taylor

Edward Malin

as Caretaker

Geoffrey Bellman

as Pathologist

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