The Bank Messenger Mystery

Directed byLawrence Huntington

Written byLawrence Huntington

Produced byWill Hammer

StarringGeorge Mozart
Francesca Bahrle
Paul Neville

The Bank Messenger Mystery
Advertisement from Kine Weekly, 9 May 1940 [1]
Directed by	Lawrence Huntington
Written by	Lawrence Huntington
Produced by	Will Hammer
Starring	George Mozart Francesca Bahrle Paul Neville
Cinematography	Eric Cross
Production company	Hammer Film Productions
Distributed by	Renown Pictures (UK)
Release date	1940 (1940)
Running time	56 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Bank Messenger Mystery is a 1936 British crime film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring George Mozart, Francesca Bahrle and Paul Neville.^[2] It was an early Hammer Films production by Lawrence Huntington.

According to the British Film Institute's British Films, 1927–1939, the film was "in production" in 1936^[3]; however the BFI database gives the release date as 1940.^[2] Advertisements in the trade paper Kine Weekly indicate that the film was trade shown in 1940 in Manchester,^[4] Cardiff^[5] and London^[6]. In 1940 the Monthly Film Bulletin listed the film under "films issued between March 20 and April 24".^[7] The British Board of Film Classification dates the film as 1940.^[8]

The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films states that no actual evidence of a theatrical release exists.^[9] The entry for the film Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography mentions without evidence a 1936 trade show, and states "it is not known if it ever saw the inside of a theatre".^[10]