Edgar Lustgarten

The Scales of Justice is a series of thirteen British cinema featurettes produced from 1962 to 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios in London. The first nine were made in black and white, and the last four in colour. The finale, Payment in Kind, was Merton Park's final production. Episodes were based on criminal cases, and each film was introduced by criminologist Edgar Lustgarten. The series derives its title from the symbolic scales held by the statue of Justice, situated above the dome of London's Central Criminal Court, The Old Bailey. The opening narration describes her as having "in her right hand, the Sword of Power and Retribution, and in her left – The Scales of Justice".

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A British short film about Scotland Yard investigating a group of bank robbers who take normal sedan cars and transform them into race cars.

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Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man.

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From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.

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When Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a man in the London airport, the trail leads to Lisbon and a international currency smuggling gang.

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Scotland Yard detectives investigate an insurance scam, where a "drowned" man proves to have been dead before he was thrown in the water.

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A Scotland Yard ballistics expert is called into identify a murderer through a scientific analysis of the bullet that killed a man.

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A murderer attempts to escape justice by shipping his victims body to Tokyo in a trunk.

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A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears

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A Scotland Yard detective investigates the connection between a man who suffers from amnesia, a blackmailer and murder.

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Scotland Yard detectives race to find a crippled man, the only witness to crime, who has mysteriously disappeared.

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A blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd, but finds himself accused of the murder

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The body of a travelling salesman is found underneath a burning caravan, and Scotland Yard is convinced it's murder! But is everything as it seems?

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A Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of an old recluse.

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Through a mother's terrible dream, her son's body is discovered in France and his killer is arrested in England.

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During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.

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American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.

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