Paul Temple Returns [Bombay Waterfront] ** (1952, John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Peter Gawthorne, Valentine Dyall, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 4,485

John Bentley again plays novelist-sleuth Paul Temple, who this time investigates a series of gruesome murders by a mysterious serial killer known as The Marquis, in the 1952 British thriller film Paul Temple Returns.

John Bentley again plays novelist-sleuth Paul Temple, who this time investigates, along with his sleuth wife Steve (Patricia Dainton), a series of gruesome murders by a mysterious serial killer known as The Marquis. Director Maclean Rogers drums up another pleasingly twisty and well-acted but rickety and cheap-looking black and white British mystery thriller, based on the 1942 BBC radio serial Paul Temple Intervenes by Francis Durbridge.

This 1952 mystery movie, Paul Temple Returns [Bombay Waterfront], proved to be the fourth and final Temple film, following Send for Paul Temple [The Green Finger] (1946), Calling Paul Temple (1948) and Paul Temple’s Triumph (1950).

Dainton replaces Dinah Sheridan, who played Steve in the previous two Temple movies. Joy Shelton played Steve originally in Send for Paul Temple [The Green Finger] (1946).

It also stars Peter Gawthorne as Sir Graham Forbes, Valentine Dyall as Superintendent Bradley, Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Inspector Ross and Christopher Lee as Sir Felix Raybourne.

Also in the cast are Ben Williams, Grey Blake, Arthur Hill, Robert Urquhart, Dan Jackson, Andreas Malandrinos, George Patterson, Sylvia Pugh, Dennis [Denis] Holmes, Michael Mulcaster, Gerald Rex, Elizabeth Gilbert and Vi Kaley.

Paul Temple Returns [Bombay Waterfront] runs 71 minutes, is made by Nettlefold Films, distributed by Butcher’s Film Service (1952) (UK) and Beverly Pictures (1952) (US), written by Francis Durbridge, based on the BBC Radio serial Paul Temple Intervenes broadcast from October to December in 1942, shot in black and white by Geoffrey Faithfull, produced by Ernest G Roy, and scored by Wilfred Burns, with Art Direction by George Paterson.

It is shot at Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.

Durbridge novelised the BBC radio serial in 1944.

© Derek Winnert 2016 Classic Movie Review 4,485

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