Edmund Lowe gets a dual role as Dakin Barrolles, a Raffles-like crook with a humorous sense of derring-do, who goes to war to escape Scotland Yard, is disfigured by shrapnel, and returns with the dour visage of the late Sir John Lasher, a dull banker who's probably better off dead. “Although William K. Howard came to terms with talkies quite quickly and from 1931's Surrender on was back in top form again, his interim talkies were both uneven and uncertain. Despite some fine visuals, especially at the beginning, Scotland Yard was more designed to exploit the (then) novelty of an actor in sound playing a dual role. It's a short and brisk film, however, one of the least known early Howards, and certainly deserving of this revival. Incidentally, it was remade in 1940 under the same title with John Loder, Nancy Kelly and Henry Wilcoxon.” William K. Everson