Name: The Crooked Billet
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Cast: Carlyle Blackwell, Madeleine Carroll, Miles Mander

The story is told in a frankly popular way, bordering at times on extravagance and constructive licence, but all the time providing a full share of movement and excitement. The improbabilities of some situations are quickly forgotten in the constant succession of stirring incidents, and Carlyle Blackwell as Hebbirn, Miles Mander as the suave, debonair detective, and Frank Goldsmith as Sir William Easton do splendid work by convincing characterisation. Madeleine Carroll makes a charming Joan Easton, and a long cast, including Gordon Harker, contribute excellent teamwork in a production full of opportunities for incidental byplay and exciting clashes. Hardly any of the recognised ingredients for effective melodrama have been omitted, and patron will complain of not having received a full measure of thrills and excitement.

(BIOSCOPE, 26 March, 1930)

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