Bruce Seton

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street -- (1936) Eve Lister, Tod Slaughter. Tod's most famous film. Two maniacs murder for frofit, hack up the bodis, and then sell thim in meat pies. Sounds appetizing, doesn't it...

Energetic young Pip (Gerard Lohan) leaves Nairobi, where he loathes his father's big-game hunting, to live with his aunt (Angela Baddeley) and attend school in London. Obsessed with animals, Pip spends more time at the zoo than at school and soon embarks on a dubious escapade. Pip is thrilled when the zoo acquires a rare coati, and when the little animal goes missing, Pip reluctantly defends a newsreel cameraman who is suspected of the crime.

A secret scientific formula is the target, as a group of racketeers attempt a shakedown in this action adventure. Honor Blackman and Tom Conway star.

This gritty thriller -- which heavily influenced later crime dramas such as Jack Webb's "Dragnet" -- focuses on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen, including veteran bobby George Dixon (Jack Warner). When the seasoned officer is murdered by a pair of lowlife hoodlums (Dirk Bogarde and Patric Doonan), rookie cop Andy Mitchell (Jimmy Hanley) helps nail the killers in this BAFTA winner for Best Film.