Scotland Yard

Krimi / drama, USA, 1941, 68 min.



He stole a banker's face! - and his wife
Bank robber Dakin Barrolles is trying to escape from Inspector Henry James Cork of Scotland Yard when he slips into the house of Sir John and Lady Sandra Lasher. Lasher, a drunken coward, is verbally berating Sandra because of his fear about leaving the next day for military duty. Barrolles reproaches Lasher, a well-known bank manager, for his harsh words, then takes the car keys and Sandra's locket, which contains photographs of her and Lasher, as a souvenir. Cork apprehends Barrolles as he tries to leave, but the clever thief eludes him. Time passes, and Cork learns that Barrolles entered the Army under an assumed name and has served with great distinction. Although Barrolles was supposedly killed during the battle of Dunkerque, his face has been horribly disfigured and he is sent to a hospital in Scotland. The photographs of Lasher and Sandra are found among his effects, and because he has no other identification, the doctors assume that Barrolles is Lasher. Through plastic surgery, they then re-construct his face so that he looks exactly like Lasher. Sometime later, Sandra is apprehensive upon learning that her mean-tempered husband has been found alive, and is pleasantly surprised by the gentleness and consideration of Barrolles, who decides to carry on with the deception when he awakens and finds that he has Lasher's face. Barrolles pretends to have amnesia so that his lack of knowledge about their life together will not be suspicious. Barrolles falls in love with Sandra, although he nonetheless intends to rob Lasher's bank. When he goes to the bank for "Lasher's" first day back at work, Barrolles arranges for a large transfer of gold. He is then confronted by Hugh Burnside, who states that he is the uncle of Lasher's mistress. Barrolles goes with Burnside to the home of Lady Constance Fraser, and there learns that she and Burnside are the head of a Nazi spy ring working out of England. They tell him that the real Lasher is alive in a German concentration camp, and that unless he helps them steal the gold shipment, due to arrive the next day, they will tell the authorities that he is an impostor. Barrolles is repelled by them but has no choice other than to appear to cooperate. The next day, Cork, who has uncovered the fact that Barrolles is impersonating Lasher, returns Sandra's locket to her, and she also deduces the truth. She goes to the bank where she inadvertently helps the thieves by authorizing the gold shipment, which Barrolles had tried to delay. Barrolles had managed to send a message to Cork, however, and the intrepid inspector helps foil the robbery. The spies are apprehended, and Cork tells Barrolles that he is a free man because of Parliament's pardon to criminals with distinguished service records. Barrolles and Sandra admit their love for each other, but agree that they cannot be together until the real Lasher is freed from the concentration camp. Sandra and Cork then applaud Barrolles' determination to re-enter the army and help end the war.
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