Edgar Wallace Mysteries
- 1959 – 1966
- Ended
- Mystery · Drama
- 10 seasons
- 7.5/10
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.
Latest: Season 5 · 1963
View all seasonsE1. The Partner
Sep 15, 1963
Shady dealings and a duplicitious accountant put studio head Wayne Douglas and his new Oriental actress Lin in peril.
E2. Accidental Death
Nov 14, 1963
Returning 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.
E3. Five to One
Dec 18, 1963
Alan Roper is an intelligent 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.
E4. Downfall
Jan 13, 1964
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife.
E5. The Verdict
Feb 8, 1964
Big-time racketeer Joe Armstrong is deported back to Great Britain from America to find himself facing a murder rap for a killing he had committed twenty years before.
E6. We Shall See
Apr 8, 1964
Alva 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.
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