The Riverside Murder is a 1935 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 crime film

Crime film

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 directed by Albert Parker

Albert Parker

Albert Parker was the owner of The Claxton Bakery and creator of the Old Fashion Claxton Fruitcake. Parker got his start working with Savino Tos, the founder and previous owner of The Claxton Bakery, in 1927 when he was eleven years old. In 1945, Tos sold the bakery to Albert Parker and retired...

 and starring Basil Sydney

Basil Sydney

Basil Sydney was an English actor who made over fifty screen appearances, most memorably as Claudius in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet. He also appeared in classic films like Treasure Island , Ivanhoe and Around the World in Eighty Days , but the focus of his career was the legitimate...

, Judy Gunn

Judy Gunn

Judy Gunn, born Joan Winfindale was a British film actress.When she was thirteen she played a leading role in a local dramatic performance and the following year she went to RADA to study, where she was the youngest pupil...

 and Zoe Davis

Zoë Davis

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Plot summary

A woman reporter helps an inspector solve the deaths of four financiers on the eve of a group shareout. Based on "Les Six Hommes Morts" (Editions du Masque) by André Steeman. Robert Norman is shot dead at his home. Inspector Winton arrives on the scene to investigate the murder and finds that it has occurred shortly before an important meeting between a group of five financiers of whom Norman was one. Budding journalist Claire Haines also manages to talk her way into the house in an attempt to impress her editor by gathering exclusive news on the murder. The other financiers realise they are also in danger when another one of their number is murdered. Inspector Winton sets a trap for the killer using one of the financiers as bait, unmasking the killer as one of the group who had earlier faked his own murder.

Cast

• Basil Sydney
  Basil Sydney
  Basil Sydney was an English actor who made over fifty screen appearances, most memorably as Claudius in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet. He also appeared in classic films like Treasure Island , Ivanhoe and Around the World in Eighty Days , but the focus of his career was the legitimate...
  
   as Inspector Philip Winton
• Judy Gunn
  Judy Gunn
  Judy Gunn, born Joan Winfindale was a British film actress.When she was thirteen she played a leading role in a local dramatic performance and the following year she went to RADA to study, where she was the youngest pupil...
  
   as Claire Haines
• Zoe Davis as Mrs. Harris
• Alastair Sim
  Alastair Sim
  Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films. He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two St. Trinian's films...
  
   as Police Sergeant "Mac" McKay
• Reginald Tate
  Reginald Tate
  Reginald Tate was an English actor, veteran of many roles on stage, in film and on television. He is best remembered as the first actor to play the television science-fiction character Professor Bernard Quatermass, in the 1953 BBC Television serial The Quatermass Experiment.-Early life:Reginald...
  
   as Hubert Perrin
• Ian Fleming
  Ian Fleming (actor)
  Ian Fleming was an Australian born character actor with credits in over 100 British movies.He is perhaps best known for playing Dr. Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes movies of the 1930s opposite Arthur Wontner's Holmes...
  
   as Henry Sanders
• Tom Helmore
  Tom Helmore
  Tom Helmore was an English film actor. He appeared in over 50 films between 1927 and 1972, including three directed by Alfred Hitchcock.He was born in London and died in Longboat Key, Florida.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Alfred Jerome
• Martin Lewis as William Gregg
• C.M. Hallard
  C.M. Hallard
  -Selected filmography:* Mrs. Thompson * The Case of Lady Camber * A Light Woman * Compromising Daphne * Tell England * The Chinese Puzzle * Royal Cavalcade * Moscow Nights...
  
   as Dickenson - Norman's Attorney
• Aubrey Mallalieu
  Aubrey Mallalieu
  Aubrey Mallalieu was an English actor with a prolific career in supporting roles in films in the 1930s and 1940s....
  
  as Robert Norman