The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

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This article is about the film. For the novel, see The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (novel).

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Denham Studios
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • November 1939 (1939-11)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery is a 1939 British

Alan Hyman, adapted from a 1939 novel by Leonard Gribble.[1][2]

Plot

The film is a

Detective Inspector Slade (Leslie Banks) is called in to solve the crime.[1]

The victim has been poisoned by a powerful digitalis-based chemical. There is evidence that he was being blackmailed.

The investigation gets complicated when the girlfriend (a prime suspect) is also murdered by the same method.

The police set a trap by putting a chemical on top of the poison, which turns the skin black after a few hours. The player responsible is then spotted whilst playing.

Cast

Production

The film stars several Arsenal players and members of staff such as

Second World War
. Brentford’s players wore white shirts for the match because their first choice red and white stripes would have clashed with Arsenal's red and white jerseys. The Trojans’ players therefore wore similar white shirts in close up sequences which were then cut in with the match action.[1]

Dickinson planned a follow-up, The Denham Studio Mystery, which was intended to incorporate footage from the abortive film I Claudius, but this fell through.[4][1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "50. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery". Arsenal.com.
  2. ^ a b "The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, by Leonard Gribble". Independent.co.uk.
  3. ^ "The Arsenal Stadium Mystery". Radio Times.com.
  4. ^ Horne, Philip (5 August 2005). "He was a premier-league director". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 January 2010.

External links

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