Edgar Wallace Mysteries (1959)
The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a British second-feature film series, produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 46 films in the series, made between 1960 and 1965. The films were loose adaptations of Edgar Wallace's books and stories. Very few used his original titles, and there was no attempt to set them in the period in which Wallace wrote, probably to obviate the need for elaborate costumes and sets. A 1962 article in Scene magazine quotes £22,000 as the budget for an episode then in production.
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Episode 1 - The Set Up
Release Date: 1963-01-03Theo Gaunt (Maurice Denham) hires an ex-con to steal his wife's jewelry.
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Episode 2 - Incident at Midnight
Release Date: 1963-01-12A drug addict (Martin Milner) tries to crack a dope ring
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Episode 3 - The £20,000 Kiss
Release Date: 1963-01-28An up and coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.
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Episode 4 - On the Run
Release Date: 1963-03-12Model prisoner Frank Stewart, convicted for burgulary, escapes from prison with the help of Jock Mackay, an associates for his boss Wally Lucas, who plans to track down Stewart to know the location of stolen bonds.
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Episode 5 - Return to Sender
Release Date: 1963-03-26A swindling tycoon (Nigel Davenport) tries to avoid jail by discrediting the prosecutor.
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Episode 6 - The Double
Release Date: 1963-04-01A man (Alan MacNaughton) suffering from amnesia, false memory and paralysis of his legs returns to England with his nurse (Jeanette Sterke). He believes he killed his partner 6 months earlier, but the body was never found. They are to stay with her sister (Jane Griffiths) while she continues to try to overcome his handicaps. They are spotted at the airport by the secretary (Anne Lawson) of Basil Henson, who has kept tabs on his movements. Sterke gets engaged in following the trail, which begins with a solicitor and leads to Henson who is a successful stock broker with the same name as MacNaughton's partner.
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Episode 7 - To Have and To Hold
Release Date: 1963-07-05A CID detective is lured into a plot by girl who first pretends to fall in love with him, then that she's been killed and is now actually a heretofore unknown twin sister, and ultimately a murderous betrayal.
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Episode 8 - The Partner
Release Date: 1963-09-11Shady dealings and a duplicitious accountant put studio head Wayne Douglas and his new Oriental actress Lin in peril. Starring Yoko Tani, Guy Doleman, Ewan Roberts, Mark Eden and Anthony Booth. Directed by Garard Glaister.
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Episode 9 - Accidental Death
Release Date: 1963-11-15Returning from a party the adopted daughter of Colonel Paxton and her boyfriend are surprised by an intruder. The colonel, however, instantly remembers him as a war comrade. Starring John Carson, Jacqueline Ellis, Derrick Sherwin and Richard Vernon. Directed by Geoffrey Nethercott.
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Episode 10 - Five to One
Release Date: 1963-12-05Alan Roper is a smart young man on the fringes of big time crime. With his partner-in-crime, Lea, and his girlfriend Pat, he's planning his biggest job yet - the robbery of a betting shop owned by a man he hates. Starring Lee Montague, Ingrid Hafner, John Thaw and Brian McDermott. Directed by Gordon Flemyng.
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Episode 11 - The Rivals
Release Date: 1963-12-12A Swedish millionaire (Jack Gwillin) thinks the world of his daughter---and it may cost that much to get her back from kidnappers.
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Episode 12 - Ricochet
Release Date: 1963-12-19Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him. But Brodie, anticipating this predictament, has a hidden agenda behind all this to get the last laugh at Phipps.