The Ace of Spades – 1935 | 66 mins | Thriller, Crime | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Routine quota-quickie crime thriller with a light touch shot at Julius Hagen’s Twickenham Film Studios.

Materialistic Cleo Despard (Jane Carr), wife of prospective MP George Despard, is engaged in an affair with Harry Trent (Sebastian Shaw), the brother of her husband’s rival candidate, Nick Trent (Michael Hogan). Trent’s big by-election pledge is a railway serving the local community, but local peer and landowner Lord Yardleigh (Felix Aylmer) refuses to give permission for the track to cross his land.

Later that evening Lord Yardleigh is found dead at the gates of his estate and at the subsequent inquest he is judged to have died from accidental death due to a heart attack and striking his head on a roadside stone. Unbeknown to the inquest jury, Nick Trent had earlier struck a blow against Lord Yardleigh, and Harry and Cleo had also clipped the ailing peer whilst speeding past his home, but neither party come clean to the police. Soon the by-election candidate becomes involved in suspicion of the murder of the local peer.