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Director Walter Forde’s 1938 The Gaunt Stranger [The Phantom Strikes] is a rock solid, very capably made, most entertaining little suspense thriller, adapted from Edgar Wallace’s cast-iron novel and play The Gaunt Stranger (also known […]
Director Walter Forde’s 1931 The Ringer is an excellent early-sound black and white film version of the Edgar Wallace 1925 novel The Gaunt Stranger and 1929 play The Ringer, with a fine cast on its […]
Guy Hamilton makes his directorial debut with the stylishly old-fashioned 1952 British black and white crime thriller The Ringer, one of the best films taken from Edgar Wallace’s work, the 1925 novel The Gaunt Stranger […]
Maureen Swanson stars in the 1960 crime film The Malpas Mystery, a lively and involving, if fairly routine, British B-movie Edgar Wallace thriller adaptation. Director Sidney Hayers’s 1960 second feature crime film The Malpas Mystery […]
An armoured car is robbed on London’s Tower Bridge. The 1966 Anglo-German thriller film Circus of Fear is based on Edgar Wallace’s novel Again the Three Just Men, and stars Christopher Lee, Suzy Kendall, Leo […]
John Thaw stars in the 1965 film thriller Dead Man’s Chest as newspaperman David Jones, who finds things go very wrong when he pretends to commit his colleague (John Meillon)’s murder to make a point […]
Dudley Foster stars as a creepy murderous chief surgeon in the tense, gripping and worthwhile 1964 Edgar Wallace crime thriller Never Mention Murder. Director John Nelson Burton’s 1964 British second feature mystery film Never Mention […]
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