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The Squeaker (Original title)Murder on Diamond Row (Alternative title)
Date: 1937 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: William K. Howard

Synopsis: Detective melodrama on the struggle to expose a notorious jewel fence who works by day as the head of a respectable shipping firm.

Genre:
Crime
Releases
Date: 1937Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 77 mins Length: 6930 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (22)
A London Film Production: London Film Productions, Presents: Alexander Korda, Production Manager: David B. Cunynghame, Assistant Director: Wilfred O'Kelly, Screen Play: Edward O. Berkman, Scenario by: Bryan Wallace, [Original Novel] By: Edgar Wallace, Photographed by: Georges Perinal, Camera Operator: Robert Krasker, Supervising Editor: Jack Dennis, Film Editor: Russell Lloyd, Assistant Art Director: Arthur Cornwell, Settings Designed by: Vincent Korda, Settings Dressed by: Alec Waugh, Musical Score: Miklos Rozsa, Songs by: William Kernell, Edward O. Berkman, Musical Director: Muir Mathieson, Recording Director: A.W. Watkins, Recorded on: Western Electric, Made at the: Denham Studios
Cast (16)
Edmund Lowe (Barrabal), Sebastian Shaw (Frank Sutton), Ann Todd (Carol Stedman), Tamara Desni (Tamara), Robert Newton (Larry Graeme), Allan Jeayes (Inspector Elford), Alastair Sim (Joshua Collie), Stewart Rome (Superintendent Marshall), Mabel Terry-lewis (Mrs Stedman), Gordon McLeod (Field), Alf Goddard ([Sergeant Hawkins]), Bill Shine ([Alfie]), Fred Groves ([Martin, Sutton's butler]), Michael Rennie ([morgue attendant]), Danny Green ([safe cracker]), Ben Williams ([Dale, plain clothes policeman])