Is Murder Increasing (1958)

Full title reads: “Is Murder Increasing?“ Intertitle reads: “Does partial abolition of hanging work, or does it encourage the killer?“ GV Scotland Yard. SV shot of police car driving out. GV Int. shot of the new control room inside Scotland Yard. SV Policemen seated at switchboard. Policeman places slip of paper containing message onto conveyor belt. SV Slip of paper travelling down the belt. LV Policeman picks up the slip of paper and hands it to radio operator who transmits the message to a police car. CU Police radio operator. LV Night shot of police car at roadside receiving the message. CU One of the patrol car crew, camera pans down to him writing the information down. LV Detectives entering tenement building at night time where an elderly woman was found murdered. SV Int. shot of two policemen on guard outside room. CU Door of the room where the woman's body was found. SV Policeman on guard outside the room. LV Heston Parish Church. LV Graveyard, camera pans down to Mrs Murial Maitland's grave. She