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Hyde Park Corner is a 1935 British comedy crime film, directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Eric Portman. Harker portrays a policeman investigating a crime in 1930s London, which proves to have its origins in the 1780s. [1] The film takes its name from Hyde Park Corner in
The 1935 film Hyde Park Corner takes its name from the area, where it is set. "Hyde Park Corner" was used as a codeword to announce to the government the death of King George VI in 1952. [10] "Hyde Park Corner" was the second episode of the first season of the Netflix series The Crown. It covered the death of George VI and the accession of ...
The following is an overview of 1935 in film, including significant events, ... Hyde Park Corner, directed by Sinclair Hill, starring Gordon Harker ; I-J
The film depicts life at Hyde Park Corner in London. Hyde Park Corner is claimed to be the first film set in London, as well as the first to be filmed on celluloid, although Louis Le Prince successfully shot on glass plate before 18 August 1887, [1] and on paper negative in October 1888. It may nonetheless be the first moving picture film on ...
Hyde Park Corner tube station; Hyde Park Corner, a 1935 drama set in London; Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses, an 1889 film also known as Hyde Park Corner. A junction on the corner of the Hyde Park area in Leeds; Hyde Park Corner (shopping centre), a shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa
William Gordon Harker (7 August 1885 – 2 March 1967) was an English stage and film actor.. Harker was one of the sons of Sarah Elizabeth Harker, née Hall, (1856–1927), and Joseph Harker (1855–1927), a much admired set painter for the theatre for whom the Dracula character Jonathan Harker was named.
In 1935, he appeared in four films, including Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn with Tod Slaughter. He also made Hyde Park Corner with Gordon Harker and directed by Sinclair Hill; Old Roses and Abdul the Damned. In 1936 Portman had a stage hit playing Lord Byron in Bitter Harvest.
Sinclair Hill (10 June 1896 – 6 March 1945) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed nearly fifty films between 1920 and 1939. He was born as George Sinclair-Hill in London in 1894. He was awarded an OBE for his services to film. [1] Hill was employed by Stoll Pictures in the 1920s and Gainsborough Pictures in the ...