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Scotland Yard superintendent Allan Cuthbertson calls in retired detective Lee Montague after safecracker Nigel Green robs a jewellery shop safe and kills a policeman during his escape. Director Robert Tronson’s 1961 British second feature Edgar […]
John Thaw stars as Alan Roper, who, along with his partner-in-crime John (Brian McDermott) and his girlfriend Pat (Ingrid Hafner), is planning to rob a betting shop, in the 1963 Edgar Wallace British B-movie Five […]
The 1962 British second feature mystery thriller film Flat Two is a tremendous Edgar Wallace Mystery series episode, with a nifty, tricksy plot, excellent dialogue, good characters and great character actors. Director Alan Cooke’s 1962 British second […]
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 […]