The Echo Murders has David Farrar who would in two years get his career role as Mr. Dean in Black Narcissus essays the role of two fisted action detective Sexton Blake. The Blake character was far more the American type detective like Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe than the classic British sleuth Sherlock Holmes. And his character was the center of hundreds of stories in British pulp fiction.
In this film Farrar is called in when a man shot to death sent a Dictaphone recording of a confession of a murder that the victim committed over 20 years earlier prior to his demise. It all looks like a domestic dispute of some kind, the coroner calls it suicide, Farrar calls it murder and the boyfriend of the deceased's adopted daughter Dennis Price is arrested.
It turns out to be more than that though and in the end it involves some Nazi fifth columnists trying to take over a tin mine on the Cornwall coast and use it as a secret base for a westward invasion of Great Britain.
Some sloppy writing and editing unfortunately characterizes The Echo Murders as bodies start dropping all over Cornwall. But this was what they called in the United Kingdom a quota quickie and they weren't any more careful with their B films than we were with our's.
Still it's not all that bad and quite the curiosity for today's audience.
In this film Farrar is called in when a man shot to death sent a Dictaphone recording of a confession of a murder that the victim committed over 20 years earlier prior to his demise. It all looks like a domestic dispute of some kind, the coroner calls it suicide, Farrar calls it murder and the boyfriend of the deceased's adopted daughter Dennis Price is arrested.
It turns out to be more than that though and in the end it involves some Nazi fifth columnists trying to take over a tin mine on the Cornwall coast and use it as a secret base for a westward invasion of Great Britain.
Some sloppy writing and editing unfortunately characterizes The Echo Murders as bodies start dropping all over Cornwall. But this was what they called in the United Kingdom a quota quickie and they weren't any more careful with their B films than we were with our's.
Still it's not all that bad and quite the curiosity for today's audience.