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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

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1960 film The Malpas Mystery is a lively if fairly routine, bland and mildly acted British B-movie Edgar Wallace crime thriller adaptation, with careful film-making but plenty of silly dialogue to stump […]

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) – Classic Movie Review 3817

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 […]

Jun, 07

Never Mention Murder **½ (1964, Dudley Foster, Maxine Audley, Peter Butterworth, Michael Coles, Pauline Yates) – Classic Movie Review 3681

The 1964 British crime film Never Mention Murder stars Dudley Foster, who is extremely effective as Philip Teasdale, a creepy chief surgeon who hires a private detective (Brian Haines) to follow his wife Liz (Maxine […]

May, 09

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