Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Edgar Wallace"

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The Gaunt Stranger [The Phantom Strikes] **** (1938, Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson, Louise Henry) – Classic Movie Review 10,853

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 […]

Jan, 29

The Ringer **** (1931, Patric Curwen, Esmond Knight, John Longden, Carol Goodner, Esmond Knight, Gordon Harker, Franklin Dyall) – Classic Movie Review 10,845

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 […]

Jan, 29

The Ringer **** (1952, Herbert Lom, Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling, Greta Gynt, William Hartnell, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 10,844

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 […]

Jan, 29

The Malpas Mystery ** (1960, Maureen Swanson, Allan Cuthbertson, Geoffrey Keen, Ronald Howard, Sandra Dorne, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 10,226

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 […]

Aug, 26

Circus of Fear [Psycho-Circus] ** (1966, Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Heinz Drache, Eddi Arent, Suzy Kendall, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 4,291

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 […]

Sep, 03

Dead Man’s Chest ** (1965, John Thaw, Ann Firbank, John Meillon, John Collin) – Classic Movie Review 3,817

The 1965 British Edgar Wallace Mystery crime drama mystery film Dead Man’s Chest features John Thaw and John Meillon as two young journalists who simulate a murder, but are in deep trouble when the scheme […]

Jun, 07

Never Mention Murder **½ (1964, Dudley Foster, Maxine Audley, Peter Butterworth, Michael Coles, Pauline Yates) – Classic Movie Review 3,681

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 […]

May, 09

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