Aug 22nd   
The Blue Parrot*   
(GB 1953)     
Monarch/ACT Films. 69m. bw

Scotland Yard detectives go undercover to investigate a murder involving a Soho nightclub. 
Routine but quite passable Scotland Yard style yarn, with some interesting familiar names.

w: Alan MacKinnon, from a story by Percy Hoskins
p: Stanley Haynes
d: John Harlow
s: Dermot Walsh, Jacqueline Haynes, Ballard Berkeley, Richard Pearson, John Le Mesurier (as the chief villain), Ferdy Mayne, Edwin Richfield, Victor Lucas, June Ashley, Valerie White
ph: Robert Navarro;
m: Eric Jupp

Preceded by:
All That Mighty Heart**
(GB 1962 British Transport Films. 23m.; Compilation day in the life of London Transport, and its suburbs, lyrical enough as a Humphrey Jennings-style film poem to the transitioning capital city.; p: Edgar Anstey; d: R.K. Neilson Baxter; ph: David Watkin; ed: John Legard.

THE BLUE PARROT. Ballard (Fawlty Towers) Berkeley versus John (Dad's Army) Le Mesurier! Richard Pearson in the background was also a noted TV and film character player