A directorial graduate of the British film industry's "quota" system of the 1930s and 1940s, Leslie Hiscott was an alumnus of Cambridge and a World War I vet. Hiscott began his filmmaking career on the Continent as an assistant director. By the time he'd graduated to full director in 1925, Hiscott reasoned that it was better to be constantly busy than to brood over such intangibles as art and aesthetics. Thus the Hiscott canon was represented by such quota quickies as A Night in Montmartre (1930), The Stolen Necklace (1933), and Death on the Set (1935). Leslie Hiscott fared somewhat more satisfactorily with his contributions to actor Arthur Wontner's "Sherlock Holmes" film series of the 1930s (The Sleeping Cardinal, The Missing Rembrandt, The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes)
by Hal Erickson
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