Produced by Jack Greenwood for Merton Park Studios. Distributed in the U.K. through Warner Pathé/Anglo Amalgamated. U.K. release date: 8 March 1964. Australian distribution through B.E.F. Never theatrically released in the U.S.A. but available to TV through AVCO Embassy. 5,102 feet. 57 minutes.
COMMENT: On acquiring the screen rights to most of Edgar Wallace's novels and stories in 1960, Merton Park Studios made a total of 49 low-budget features. This is number 34, and the first of the two films (the other, Who Was Maddox?) in the series directed by Geoffrey Nethercott. The screenwriter, Arthur La Bern, also wrote numbers 18 (Time to Remember), 25 ( Incident at Midnight), and 36 (The Verdict). Most of the other behind-the-camera personnel were used constantly throughout the series, which came to an end with Strangler's Web in 1965. This is a passably entertaining entry. The photography is flat, but the direction shows some evidence of talent and the script holds the interest throughout the film's 57 minutes.
OTHER VIEWS: Entertaining minor thriller with plenty of pace and suspense and very neat performances from John Carson, Jacqueline Ellis and Richard Vernon. Within his obviously limited budget, Geoffrey Nethercott's direction is fairly forceful. - E.V.D.
COMMENT: On acquiring the screen rights to most of Edgar Wallace's novels and stories in 1960, Merton Park Studios made a total of 49 low-budget features. This is number 34, and the first of the two films (the other, Who Was Maddox?) in the series directed by Geoffrey Nethercott. The screenwriter, Arthur La Bern, also wrote numbers 18 (Time to Remember), 25 ( Incident at Midnight), and 36 (The Verdict). Most of the other behind-the-camera personnel were used constantly throughout the series, which came to an end with Strangler's Web in 1965. This is a passably entertaining entry. The photography is flat, but the direction shows some evidence of talent and the script holds the interest throughout the film's 57 minutes.
OTHER VIEWS: Entertaining minor thriller with plenty of pace and suspense and very neat performances from John Carson, Jacqueline Ellis and Richard Vernon. Within his obviously limited budget, Geoffrey Nethercott's direction is fairly forceful. - E.V.D.