23 Paces to Baker Street

23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) is a Hollywood thriller directed by Henry Hathaway — watch it online on iFILM. Blind playwright Philip Hannon overhears a fragment of conversation in a London pub. It sounds like a kidnapping being planned. Scotland Yard isn't interested — no names, no location, nothing to go on.

Hannon investigates on his own, with his ex-fiancée and butler in tow, while the people he's tracking start closing in. Van Johnson's performance is built around absence — a man who has to reason through everything he can't see, and the film draws most of its tension from exactly that constraint. A compact, fog-drenched crime picture worth finding. Watch 23 Paces to Baker Street online on iFILM.