23 Paces to Baker Street is a 1956 American DeLuxe Color mystery thriller film directed by Henry Hathaway.

[3] Philip Hannon is a blind playwright who lives in a London flat with a spectacular view over the Thames River between Waterloo Bridge and Charing Cross Station.

He tries to contact Inspector Grovening, who offers no help, so Hannon, his butler and his American ex-fiancée Jean seek to bring the kidnappers to justice.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote:[A] large part of this picture is curiously casual and slow, as Van Johnson, as the blind man, bores the mischief out of everybody with his hazy suspicions.

... [M]atters do start popping about half or two-thirds of the way along, when it is finally discovered, through various coincidences, that something has been cooking all the time.