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 - Downfall
Release Date: 1964-01-03Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife.
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Episode 2 - We Shall See
Release Date: 1964-04-12Alva Collins is the attractive wife of a captain in a civil airline. She is neurotic, vicious and unstable but only her brother knows that she is a hopeless psychopath whose condition can only deteriorate. Starring Maurice Kaufmann, Faith Brook, Alec Mango and Hugh Paddick. Directed by Quentin Lawrence.
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Episode 3 - Act of Murder
Release Date: 1964-09-11A well-off couple who work in the theatre plan to temporarily swap their country manor for the city home of an elderly couple. When they arrive in city, there is no sign of the address they were given. At the same time, their home is being looted of its expensive antiques and furniture. However, a friend stumbles onto the thieves and chases them out. When the couple arrives home, they find themselves subjected to odd occurrences, like poisoned pets and livestock. Someone seems to be taking advantage of the situation to upset their lives.
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Episode 4 - Never Mention Murder
Release Date: 1964-11-22Top surgeon Philip Teasdale (Dudley Foster) plans to use his medical skills to bump off his wife's lover, but reckons without the greedy private detective he originally hired to prove him a cuckold
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Episode 5 - Face of a Stranger
Release Date: 1964-11-29In prison, two inmates are getting out soon. One, soon getting out, has been sent up for a heist of several thousand pounds, still not recovered. The other, getting out before him, pumps the other for details of his home life, so he he can assume the other's identity and get to the loot first.
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Episode 6 - The Verdict
Release Date: 1964-12-06Joe Armstrong, a big-time racketeer, is deported back to Great Britain from America to find himself facing a murder rap for a killing he had committed twenty years before. Starring Cec Linder, Nigel Davenport, Zena Marshall and Paul Stassino. Directed by David Eady.
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Episode 7 - Who Was Maddox?
Release Date: 1964-12-13Philip Teasdale, an eminent heart surgeon, is having his attractive artist wife watched by a private detective - not for purposes of divorce, but for a nasty form of revenge. Starring Maxine Audley, Dudley Foster, Michael Coles and Pauline Yates.