Edgar WallaceFilmography

King Kong

Crew: From Idea By

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: Famed producer Dino De Laurentiis tries to steal the thunder from Jaws, then the top-grossing film of all-time, in this big budget remake of King Kong. (De Laurentiis related his tactics to Tom Snyder: "When Jaws dies, nobody cries. When Kong dies, they all cry.") Updated to the 1970s, the Read More

What Have You Done to Solange?

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Joachim Fuchsberger, Camille Keaton, Fabio Testi

Synopsis: One of the final links between the Edgar Wallace-based German krimi genre and the Italian giallo thriller, this creepy mystery stars Fabio Testi as a college professor who sleeps with his students and is blamed when a string of murders occurs. Joachim Fuchsberger, as usual, is the Read More

Seven Blood Stained Orchids

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Pier Paolo Capponi, Uschi Glas, Marisa Mell, Antonio Sabato, Franco Fantasia

Synopsis: This uneven thriller directed by Umberto Lenzi was the final Rialto Film Company adaptation of an Edgar Wallace mystery (The Puzzle of the Silver Half-Moons), as tastes were changing and the German "krimi" genre was dying in favor of the sexier, bloodier Italian "giallo." In this awkward Read More

El Muerto Hace las Maletas

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Horst Tappert, Fred Williams

Synopsis: This strange comic-thriller was one the final entries in the West German "krimi" series based on the mystery novels of Edgar Wallace and his son. Fred Williams plays Scotland Yard detective Robert Redford, who is hunting a mysterious knife-throwing murderer through London. His search leads him to Read More

Der Gorilla von Soho

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can benefit the organization. This film is one of a very large number of German Scotland-Yard thrillers based on the novels of Edgar Wallace. ~ Clarke Read More

Die Tote aus der Temse

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The crime novels of Edgar Wallace have enjoyed enormous popularity in Germany, and this movie thriller marks approximately the 30th time his novels have had a German screen adaptation. Sir John (Siegfried Schuerenberg) and Inspector Craig (Hansjoerg Felmy) of Scotland Yard travel all over the city Read More

College Girl Murders

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Joachim Fuchsberger, Ursula Glas, Gritt Bottcher

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, Scotland Yard investigate the deaths of two coeds at an exclusive girls' school. Clues involve a man wearing a hood, and a mysterious poison gas. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ape Creature

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The Ape Creature is one of a mid-1960s series of German suspense films, loosely based on the works of Edgar Wallace. As the title indicates, the principal character is a large gorilla. Terrorizing the London waterfront, the ape may be answerable to a higher, more sinister power. That's what we Read More

Clue of the Twisted Candle

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Knight, Francis de Wolff, Colette Wilde, Christine Shaw, Stanley Morgan

Synopsis: Ramon (Francis DeWolff) is the Armenian merchant who lives in his mansion outside of London. He has augmented his income over the years by blackmailing his clients. Fearful of retribution, he installs a room in his mansion that is supposedly impenetrable, complete with a hotline to Scotland Yard Read More

The Bloody Dead

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Adapted from an Edgar Wallace story, the plot of The Creature with the Blue Hand concerns an innocent man who is accused of murder. The real perpetrator is, of course, the title character. Since Klaus Kinski plays both roles, it's understandable why the authorities are confused. One of several Read More

Das Ungeheuer von London City

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Hansjörg Felmy, Marianne Koch, Hans Nielsen

Synopsis: The fine line between drama and real life is crossed with tragic results in this German horror mystery film that is set in modern London and centers on a stage production of Jack the Ripper's life. During the run of the play, a series of murders, eerily similar to Jack's, occur. This doesn't Read More

On the Run

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: In this drama, based on an Edgar Wallace story, a thief is doing time in prison after a major heist goes awry. Meanwhile, the ringleader, wanting to know where the thief stashed the loot, conspires to spring him. Unfortunately, the thief refuses to be sprung until the mastermind abducts his girl. Read More

The Malpas Mystery

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Maureen Swanson, Allan Cuthbertson, Ronald Howard, Sandra Dorne

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace mystery, this puzzler centers on the attempts of a crook who goes to great lengths to steal another's fortune. It begins as an unjustly incarcerated heiress finishes a prison sentence. The crook wants to steal her father's money and so tries to convince the ailing tycoon Read More

Im Banne des Unheimlichen

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Joachim Fuchsberger

Synopsis: If you happened to catch Joachim Fuchsberger in a late-60's film, chances are he was appearing in a Edgar Wallace mystery. The German Hand of Power is no exception to this rule. Fuchsberger plays an inspector in search of an elusive criminal who uses a scorpion-shaped ring, filled with poison, to Read More

Circus of Fear

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace murder mystery this chiller centers on a Scotland Yard investigation of a series of puzzling deaths plaguing a traveling circus and the hunt for loot stolen from an armored car robbery. Suspects include the mask-wearing and disfigured lion tamer, a vengeful ringmaster, an Read More

The Phantom of Soho

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Dieter Borsche, Hans Söhnker, Peter Vogel, Helga Sommerfeld

Synopsis: In this mystery, a beautiful mystery writer helps a Scotland Yard detective look into the murders of several important business man. She solves the mystery before the cop and informs him that the killer's identity will be revealed in the last chapter of her newest book. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Candidate for Murder

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, John Justin, Paul Whitsun-Jones

Synopsis: This suspenseful crime drama finds a jealous husband hiring a killer to murder his supposedly unfaithful wife. Donald Edwards (Michael Gough) imports the German hit man Kersten (Hans Borsody) to murder his wife Helen (Erika Remberg). He suspects her of having an affair with Robert (John Justin). Read More

Der Bucklige von Soho

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Günther Stoll, Eddie Arent

Synopsis: Although The Hunchback Of Soho is primarily a mystery, there are moments of levity, suspense, and horror that added to the tempo of the film. An American girl in London is kidnapped when she arrives to claim a sizeable inheritance, and a home for wayward girls is the scene of several unsolved Read More

Traitor's Gate

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond

Synopsis: Though based on an Edgar Wallace novel, Traitor's Gate was not part of the long-running British series of second features based on the works of Wallace. Albert Lieven plays a London businessman who doubles as a high-tech crook. He organizes an elite gang of thieves to steal the crown jewels. Their Read More

The Main Chance

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Gregoire Aslan, Tracy Reed, Edward de Souza, Stanley Meadows, Jack Smethurst

Synopsis: In this drama, a former RAF pilot is hired to fly a suspicious package from France to England. Trouble ensues when the pilot decides to keep it for himself without realizing that his employer anticipated his treachery and planted a bomb on the plane. Fortunately, the boss's secretary intervenes Read More

Coast of Skeletons

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Richard Todd, Heinz Drache, Marianne Koch, Derek Nimmo, Elga Andersen

Synopsis: In the mid-1960s, Richard Todd starred in two British films based on Edgar Wallace's Sanders of the River. Coast of Skeletons was the sequel to Todd's earlier Death Drums Along the River. Playing insurance investigator Harry Sanders, Todd comes upon an insidious scheme to steal the valuables from Read More

Solo for Sparrow

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this British crime drama a small-town detective gets tired of Scotland Yard's constant meddling and takes a leave-of-absence from his regular duties to start his own detective agency. It is there that he solves the puzzling jewelry store heist that caused the death of the owner's wife who Read More

The Mysterious Magician

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace story, this is the story of a psychopath known as "The Wizard." Thought to be dead by the Scotland Yard, murders with his exact mode of operation in London suggests that he is not. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

We Shall See

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The innocuous title We Shall See obscures the fact that this British melodrama is perhaps the earliest "killer bee" effort. The film gets under way when Alva Collins (Faith Brook), the mentally unbalanced wife of airline pilot Evan Collins (Maurice Kaufmann), is subjected to the stings of Read More

The Verdict

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: In this crime drama a Yankee visiting England ends up arrested for murder. Not wanting to go to prison, he tries to convince his partner into rigging the jury. Unfortunately for him, the partner double-crosses him and justice is served. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Incident at Midnight

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: In this medical drama, a doctor loses his medical license after his addiction to drugs is discovered. Trouble ensues when he sees an ex-Nazi who is secretly leading the local drug ring. The police get wind of the operation and destroy it. The Nazi is killed too. Meanwhile the doctor overcomes his Read More

Never Mention Murder

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: A surgeon seeks his revenge on his unfaithful wife's lover by convincing him that he must have a deadly heart operation. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Downfall

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Downfall is yet another hour-long entry in the seemingly endless series of British-filmed Edgar Wallace mysteries. Maurice Denham plays a brilliant attorney who arranges an acquittal for murderer T.P. McKenna. It's all part of Denham's master scheme to divest himself of his wife (Nadja Regan). Read More

Who Was Maddox?

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a rivalry within a publishing house turns deadly when theft and blackmail get involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Zimmer 13

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor, Richard Haeussler, Kai Fischer, Walter Rilia

Synopsis: This crime thriller contains enough comedy and blood to interest almost any movie fan. Shady underworld thugs gather in a seedy Soho hotel in Room 13 to plan a train robbery. They plan to rendezvous in the mansion of a member of Parliament who is being blackmailed for his ties to the gang 20 years Read More

Face of a Stranger

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: When Vince Howard is released from prison, he impersonates his cellmate (still in prison) and goes to live with his cellmate's wife, who is blind, in the hopes of learning where money from a robbery has been hidden. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Double

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this mystery, two friends go to Africa, but only one returns. That one, believing his partner dead, assumes his pal's identity in hope of getting his inheritance. Meanwhile, back in Africa, the true heir survives. He is paralyzed from the waist down, and suffers amnesia, but he lives. A lady Read More

Der Schwarze Abt

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This mystery is based on an Edgar Wallace tale and centers upon an enigmatic, seemingly supernatural abbot who lives in a tower connected to an abandoned old country manse said to contain a fabulous treasure. It is the black-hooded monk's duty to keep thieves at bay. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Five to One

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: The most carefully laid plans of mice and crooks.... A gang of criminals plots the robbery of a bookmaking joint. Unfortunately, on the day of the heist, things go haywire and tragedy ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Der Henker von London

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: This quirky crime thriller stars Hansjörg Felmy as an intrepid Scotland Yard inspector tackling two seemingly disparate cases. He is officially assigned to investigate an underground society of vigilantes who take the law into their own hands, trying criminals in their own "Star Chamber"-style Read More

The Rivals

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Edgar Wallace, this crime drama centers on two car thieves who inadvertently interfere with a kidnapping when they steal the vehicle that contains the ransom for the daughter of a Swedish tycoon. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Locker Sixty-Nine

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: When a private eye cannot convince the police to investigate the murder of his boss, he takes up the case complete with missing bodies, strange papers and safety deposit box. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Curse of the Yellow Snake

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Curse of the Yellow Snake is a riproaring entry in Germany's series of low-budget films based on the works of Edgar Wallace. This time the filmmakers have borrowed a page from "Fu Manchu" creator Sax Rohmer, spinning a yarn about an Oriental cult's revolt against the white race. The names in the Read More

The 20,000 Pound Kiss

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: 20,000 Pound Kiss was the 45th of 47 British second features based on the works of Edgar Wallace, all released between 1960 and 1963. The film jams quite a lot of plot into its 57 minutes, starting off with an extortion scheme. A man of limited means is told to ante up 20,000 pounds or face public Read More

The Indian Scarf

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this suspense film, two heirs visit the isolated estate of their benefactor and find themselves hunted by a strangler with an Indian scarf. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sanders

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Richard Todd

Synopsis: Death Drums Along the River was the come-on American title for this 1963 remake of 1935's Sanders of the River. Both films were loosely based on a very popular Edgar Wallace novel. Richard Todd assumes the leading role of Harry Sanders (originally R. G. Sanders), a British police investigator Read More

Return to Sender

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: In this drama, a business magnate is caught cutting shady deals by a DA. For revenge, the evil industrialist hires a thug to destroy the lawyer's life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

To Have and to Hold

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: A police detective succumbs to a seductive beauty who convinces him to help murder her husband so she can collect on his insurance policy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Set-Up

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: The Set-Up was another in the long-running British second-feature series based on the works of Edgar Wallace. Maurice Denham plays a businessman who blackmails ex-con Brian Peck into committing a robbery. Peck is told to break into Denham's house and steal some valuable jewels so that the Read More

Der Zinker

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Heinz Drache, Barbara Rutting, Gunter Pfitzmann

Synopsis: The German The Squeaker is the third film version of the Edgar Wallace mystery novel of the same name. The title character is an omnipotent "fence" who has cornered the diamond-smuggling racket. The fence travels in polite society under the guise of a wealthy philanthropist. A Scotland Yard Read More

Attempts to Kill

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Attempts to Kill is a sprightly 57-minute entry in Merton Park Productions' "Edgar Wallace Mysteries" series. Derek Farr stars as Scotland Yard inspector Minter, on the trail of a ruthless gang of confidence tricksters. The scam artists' latest target is a London businessman, whom they plan to Read More

Accidental Death

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Jacqueline Ellis

Synopsis: Another of the long-running Merton Park "Edgar Wallace" series, the plot of the British Accidental Death is motivated by revenge. Someone wants to kill the male "protector" of toothsome Jacqueline Ellis in retribution for crimes against society committed during the war. Director George Nethercott Read More

Flat Two

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: An innocent architect stands accused of killing a professional gambler in this crime drama. Now only his lawyer can save him. Unfortunately, he soon discovers that he may be better off defending himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Number Six

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Based on a tale by Edgar Wallace, this taut crime drama centers on the exploits of an heiress who finds herself the intended victim in an upcoming robbery. Fortunately, Scotland Yard's mysterious Agent Number Six is around to protect her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ricochet

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Ricochet originated as an hour-long episode of the TV anthology series Dick Powell Theatre. Van Heflin plays a tough Marine sergeant facing a crisis of conscience. A young Marine recruit has died under Heflin's command during basic training. Though the victim perished because he didn't follow Read More

The Secret of the Black Trunk

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: During the 1960s, there were two series of theatrical programmers based on the works of mystery maven Edgar Wallace; one group of films was lensed in England, the other shot in Germany. Secret of the Black Trunk is something of a cross-pollination; it was produced by Germans, and filmed in Read More

Playback

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: In this mystery, based on an Edgar Wallace story, a wicked seductress uses her wiles on a weak-willed cop and persuades him to kill her husband so they can collect the insurance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Share Out

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Bernard Lee, better known as "M" in the James Bond movies, makes one of his periodic appearances as novelist Edgar Wallace's diligent Scotland Yard investigator protagonist in The Share Out. This time Lee takes on a clever blackmailing ring which preys upon above-suspicion government officials. As Read More

Time to Remember

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this mystery, a real estate agent begins looking for a jewel thief's stashed loot. He must find it before the robber's widow and other criminals find it first. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Death Trap

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, the sister of a suicide victim begins to question the real reason for her sibling's death after she learns that 7,000 pounds were removed from her bank account just prior to her death. She asks her sister's banker, but he claims to know nothing. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Read More

The Door with the Seven Locks

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This West German production is the second film based on the Edgar Wallace novel of the same name (the first was the 1940 Chamber of Horrors). The story -- which owes a great deal to The Cat and the Canary -- concerns the potential heirs to an eccentric's fortune, whose potential wealth (and fate) Read More

Backfire!

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: A business partner, desperate to milk some kind of profit from his failing cosmetics business, turns to arson with deadly results when he inadvertently immolates his partner while trying to destroy the factory. Still he succeeds in getting the insurance money. He then gets greedy and decides to do Read More

Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Christopher Lee, Marius Goring, Penelope Horner, Ingrid van Bergen, William Lucas

Synopsis: In this detective film, a Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer." The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Partner

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a story by Edgar Wallace, a movie mogul and a beautiful Asian actress set up a major swindle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sinister Man

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this mystery, an Oxford archaeologist is murdered while investigating the Kytang Wafers, a valuable find. Not only is he killed, the wafers are also stolen. Now his former peers from the Oriental Research Institute must launch an investigation of their own. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard also begins Read More

Partners in Crime

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a story by Edgar Wallace, a prominent business man is robbed and killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man in the Back Seat

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this adaptation of an Edgar Wallace mystery, two youthful hoods try to rob a bookie as he is leaving the track with his daily winnings. Unfortunately, the two find that the fellow has chained the loot to his wrist and they are forced to take him along with the cash. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Man at the Carlton Tower

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this Edgar Wallace mystery, the trouble begins when a Rhodesian jewel thief kills a policeman and simply disappears. Now it is up to an intrepid detective, a former cop, to solve the crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fourth Square

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace mystery, this suspenseful drama centers on an attorney who is determined to prove that his client is not a murderous burglar. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Man Detained

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this Edgar Wallace mystery, a burglar, arrested for possessing counterfeit money, is forced by the police to pose as a decoy to attract a ruthless killer who has murdered a photographer and is holding a secretary hostage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Der Falscher von London

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Siegfried Lowitz

Synopsis: In this mystery, based on a story by Edgar Wallace, Scotland Yard looks into a ring of counterfeiters. He soon discovers that an amnesiac playboy is linked to the gang of forgers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Never Back Losers

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: An insurance investigator looks into the mystery surrounding the "accidental" death of a jockey. He finds that the death was actually caused by a gambling ring and is able to save the life of another jockey who has already had a couple of "accidents." ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

The Clue of the New Pin

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this remake of the British thriller, a young TV journalist assists Scotland yard with the strange murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse was found locked in a vault. The key to the vault was on the table beside the corpse. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Das Raetsel der roten Orchidee

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Fritz Rasp, Wolfgang Buttner

Synopsis: Even while a series of British second features based on the works of Edgar Wallace was flourishing in the 1960s, Germany was grinding out its own Wallace series. Secret of the Red Orchid top-bills British actor Christopher Lee in a story of a joint effort between the FBI and Scotland Yard. The Read More

Die Seltsame Gräfin

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this mystery, a young countess almost loses her life. Investigators soon discover that the attempt is linked to a murder that occurred 20-years ago. The plot is based on an Edgar Wallace story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Clue of the Silver Key

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Bernard Lee

Synopsis: This Edgar Wallace-based second feature headlines Bernard Lee, the beloved 5 of the James Bond pictures. Here Lee is a Scotland Yard inspector, baffled by a seemingly unrelated string of murders. The link between these homicides is the silver key of the title, which yields surprising results. It Read More

Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: The Marriage of Convenience

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this drama, a prison inmate escapes and discovers that his partner has married the very cop that arrested him and has used the robbery loot to open a coastal resort. The fugitive convict is quietly followed by an inspector who arrests them all at the holiday camp. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Dead Eyes of London

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Karin Baal, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Originally titled Die Toten Augen von London, this German melodrama is the second film version of Edgar Wallace's The Testament of Gordon Stewart. The story centers on a seemingly kindly blind man who covertly controls a sinister criminal organization comprised of sightless henchmen. Actually, he Read More

The Man Who Was Nobody

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The luscious Hazel Court is the main attraction of The Man Who Was Nobody. She plays a sexy private detective, summoned to solve the murder of a jewel thief. For a while it looks as though the man who hired Hazel, the thief's brother, may himself be the murderer. But it turns out that a Read More

The Ringer

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: That deathless Edgar Wallace thriller The Ringer was taken out of cold storage once more in 1951. Donald Wolfit, whose legendary thespic excesses were later fictionalized in the stage play The Dresser, is perfectly cast as a vengeance-seeking master of disguise. He announces publicly that he Read More

The Calendar

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Greta Gynt, John McCallum, Sonia Holm, Leslie Dwyer, Charles Victor

Synopsis: The leaves of the Calendar begin to fall rapidly when avaricious Wenda (Greta Gynt) jilts newly-impoverished horse owner Garry (John McCallum). Wenda then weds Willie (Raymond Lovell), the brother of Garry's former horse-trainer Molly (Sonia Holm). While drowning his sorrows in liquor, Garry joins Read More

The Missing Million

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this mystery, a millionaire vanishes right before he is to marry. To find him, his sister hires a detective who is, after encountering many corpses, lead to "The Panda," the perpetrator of the crime. The investigator soon discovers that millionaire's fiancee is behind it all. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Mystery of Room 13

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this mystery, a detective trying to crack a forgery ring gets one of its members to go to prison to help him. When he gets out three years later, he finds that his girlfriend is now with the ringleader, and the detective must save him from being hanged by the gang. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

Chamber of Horrors

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Actors: Leslie Banks, Lilli Palmer, Romilly Lunge, Gina Malo, Richard Bird

Synopsis: A blood-and-thunder horror yarn from the pen of Edgar Wallace, The Door With Seven Locks stars Leslie Banks as a mass murderer with a penchant for puzzles. He lures several heirs to a fortune to their deaths in his mazelike mansion, which is festooned with cryptic clues leading to the location of Read More

The Green Archer [Serial]

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Synopsis: In this 15-episode serial, Detective Spike Holland must solve the mystery of Garr Castle. He does so after he is hired to look into the disappearance of Valerie Howett's sister Elaine. Within the haunted walls of the castle he finds a maze of secret passages, tunnels, trapdoors, and the enigmatic Read More

The Mysterious Mr. Reeder

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh, George Curzon, John Warwick

Synopsis: Will Fyffe makes another appearance as Mr. Reeder, the seemingly absent-minded Scotland Yard sleuth created by Edgar Wallace. This time, the canny Reeder is hot on the trail of a counterfeiting gang. In his own disshevelled fashion, he puts the criminals off guard long enough to swoop in for the Read More

The Flying Squad

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: Filmed in England, Flying Squad was the final effort of veteran silent-film director Herbert (Peter Pan) Brenon. The script was based on a popular play by suspense specialist Edgar Wallace, adapted by the late Wallace's son. Carol Goodner stars as the sister of a young man who was murdered by drug Read More

Flying Fifty-Five

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The Phantom Strikes

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Wilfred Lawson, Sonnie Hale, Alexander Knox, Louise Henry, Patrick Barr

Synopsis: In this mystery a Scotland Yard investigator and a police doctor unite to find "The Ringer" a mysterious killer and master of disguise before he can kill a lawyer who just received notice of his impending demise via a lovely bouquet with a note informing him that he has 48 hours to live. During Read More

The Terror

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Wilfred Lawson, Bernard Lee, Arthur Wontner, Linden Travers, Henry Oscar

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1928, the old Edgar Wallace novel The Terror was dusted off for another cinematic go-round ten years later. A spectacular crime spree, instigated by a mysterious miscreant known only as "The Terror", has galvanized Scotland Yard into action. The trail of clues leads to a Read More

The Human Monster

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Actors: Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Edmon Ryan, Wilfred Walter

Synopsis: In this eerie British thriller, a Scotland Yard detective looks into the mysterious drownings of five blind people. A daughter of one of the victims helps the investigators discover that each of the victims were patients of Dr. Orloff who turns out to be the killer. They then discover that he was Read More

The Missing People

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh, Lyn Harding, Ronald Shiner, Patricia Roc

Synopsis: Long after the company went out of business in the US, Grand National Pictures thrived in England, turning out such bread-and-butter features as The Missing People. Scottish comedian Will Fyffe once again plays Mr. Reeder, the seemingly bucolic Scotland Yard detective who's a lot shrewder than he Read More

The Case of the Frightened Lady

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Marius Goring, Helen Haye, Patrick Barr, Felix Aylmer, John Warwick

Synopsis: A stage play by the astonishingly prolific Edgar Wallace was the source for the British melodrama Case of the Frightened Lady. The story focuses on the aristocratic Lebanon family, with Dowager Lady Lebanon (Helen Hayes) harboring a Deep Dark Secret. It seems that every generation or so, the Read More

The Four Just Men

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Actors: Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Anna Lee

Synopsis: The eponymous Four Just Men of this film are British World War I comrades, who reunite in peacetime to bring disaster to their country's enemies. The quartet is not above murder and sabotage to achieve their ends, but their patriotism is never in question. The goal of the heroes is to thwart a Read More

Thank Evans

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this comedy, based on a tale by Edgar Wallace, a luckless gambler is assisted by a kindly lord at the racetrack. Later the gambler helps the lord realize that he is being conned by a wicked horse trainer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dangerous to Know

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the Asian lover he dumped plots her revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kate Plus Ten

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Synopsis: In this crime drama, a police inspector pursues a Lord's secretary suspected of stealing his gold bullion. She is the prime suspect because she is the leader of an infamous gang of thieves. The cops do not realize that the gang acted on their own accord. The secretary and the inspector then team Read More

Mr. Reeder in Room 13

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Actors: Sally Gray

Synopsis: Crimefighting Englishman Reeder is assisted by a young man in his efforts to expose a counterfeiting gang. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Old Bones of the River

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: An "answer" to Paul Robeson's Sanders of the River, Old Bones of the River stars comedian Will Hay as Professor Tibbetts, a member of TWIRP ("Teaching and Welfare Institute for the Reform of Pagans"). Not especially suited to his job of bringing English education to native tribes in Africa -- as Read More

The Return of the Frog

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Gordon Harker, Una O'Connor, Hartley Power, Renee Ray, Cyril Smith

Synopsis: Following a string of mysterious robberies, Scotland Yard assigns its best detective, Inspector Elk, to bring the crooks to justice. The only clue the villains leave at the crime scene is a rendering of a frog. Still that is enough for intrepid Elk to solve the case, but not after considerable Read More

The Squeaker

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd, Tamara Desni, Robert Newton

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace novel, this is an involved story of the consequences within the underworld of a big-time diamond heist. It also tells the story of a disgraced inspector who is trying to catch the infamous jewel fence known as the "Squeaker" to help clear his name again. ~ Tana Hobart Read More

Strangers Honeymoon

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Constance Cummings, Hugh Sinclair, Noah Beery, Sr., Beatrix Lehmann, David Burns

Synopsis: Raised by her wealthy relatives, young October (Constance Cummings) balks when her guardians hand-pick her prospective husband (James Arnold). In a fit of pique, she declares that she'd sooner marry a hobo, which serves as a cue for the appearance of "gentleman tramp" Quigley (Hugh Sinclair). Read More

The Frog

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Gordon Harker, Jack Hawkins, Esme Percy, Felix Aylmer

Chick

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a poor college porter suddenly becomes an earl and must protect his newly inherited estate from clever con artists who try to convince him that there is oil on his land. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Crimson Circle

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Hugh Wakefield, Alfred Drayton, June Duprez, Paul Blake, Noah Beery, Sr., Renée Gadd

Synopsis: Blackmail is the basis of this crime drama based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. The trouble begins when the leader of a ring of blackmailers becomes an amateur sleuth to outfox Scotland Yard. He spends a lot of time in the Yard getting to know the higher ups. When not schmoozing with the cops, the Read More

Educated Evans

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Max Miller, seller of horse racing information, begins a new job as a trainer for a new horse stable owner. His good fortune continues when he bets on the wrong horse and wins big. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Prison Breaker

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In this drama, a Secret Service agent must prevent a notorious international crook for taking an important treaty. Unfortunately, the agent is sent to prison after accidentally killing one of the criminal's henchmen. Determined to complete his assignment, the agent, enlisting the aid of the Read More

Sanders of the River

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney, Robert Cochran, Martin Walker

Synopsis: Based on the book by Edgar Wallace and produced by London Film Productions, the adventure drama Sanders of the River is an Imperialist propaganda film about British Colonial rule in Africa. Leslie Banks plays Commissioner "Lord Sandy" Sanders, who maintains British rule over the N'Gombi district Read More

Born to Gamble

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Onslow Stevens, H.B. Warner, Maxine Doyle, Eric Linden, Lois Wilson

Synopsis: Born to Gamble was one of the more palatable efforts of M.H. Hoffman's poverty-row Liberty Films. The four protagonists are brothers who are "cursed" by their family's gambling bug. All four try to overcome the urge to speculate: only one, the youngest, is successful. Onslow Stevens plays both the Read More

The Lad

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Gordon Harker, Betty Stockfeld, Jane Carr, Gerald Barry, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Synopsis: An uncharacteristically light-hearted Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis of this mild British comedy-drama. Gordon Harker stars as The Lad, a cheeky ex-convict who is mistaken for a private detective. Paid a huge sum of money not to dig up dirt on the Fandon family, our hero is all for taking Read More

My Old Dutch

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker, Michael Hogan

Synopsis: Its title inspired by Albert Chevalier's world-famous music-hall ballad, My Old Dutch is a treacly tale of mother love. Marrying against her wealthy father's wishes, young Betty Balfour is left a widow when her husband is killed in WW I. Doing her best to raise her baby by herself, Balfour is Read More

Return of the Terror

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Frank McHugh, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: An Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis for the uncharacteristic Warner Bros. melodrama Return of the Terror. Hoping to escape prosecution for a series of poison murders, Dr. Redmayne (John Halliday) feigns insanity at his trial. The audience knows that Redmayne is innocent, so when he escapes from Read More

The Green Pack

Crew: Play Author

Actors: John Stuart, Aileen Marson

Synopsis: Three adventurous young men find themselves duped by a double dealer in this thriller. The story begins after the young lads have convinced a wealthy man into providing financial backing for their African treasure-hunting expedition. While they are away, he immediately entraps one of the fiancees Read More

Mystery Liner

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Cornelius Keefe, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Edwin Maxwell

Synopsis: A rather nifty little science fiction-thriller/murder mystery from Poverty Row company Monogram, Mystery Liner was based on a Saturday Evening Post story by British pulp writer Edgar Wallace. Noah Beery starred as John Holling, the captain of an ocean liner equipped with a powerful scientific Read More

The Man Who Changed His Name

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Lyn Harding, Betty Stockfeld, Leslie Perrins, Ben Welden, Aubrey Mather

Synopsis: This British Edgar Wallace derivation was originally released as The Man Who Changed His Name. That ripe old barnstormer Lyn Harding plays Shelby Clive, who has been obliged to shorten his last name so that he won't be confused with a notorious (and never-apprehended) wife murderer. Not long Read More

The Feathered Serpent

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Reporter Helmore investigates the mystery in which actress Stamp-Taylor is accused of killing a fence. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Before Dawn

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges, Gertrude W. Hoffman

Synopsis: This suspenseful, exciting mystery is based upon an Edgar Wallace story and centers upon the search for $1 million in buried loot. Only the original thief, Joe Valerie knows its location. He tells the crazed Austrian Dr. Cornelius about it. The good doc secretly schemes to get it for himself, but Read More

White Face

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: White Face was one of the last cinematic endeavors of the prolific novelist Edgar Wallace, who died several months before the film's release (his son Bryan worked on the screenplay). In typical Wallace fashion, the story concerns a master criminal who adopts a clever disguise to throw the coppers Read More

King Kong

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson

Synopsis: "How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood?" Enticed by these words, brunette leading lady Fay Wray dyed her hair blonde and accepted the role of Ann Darrow in King Kong -- and stayed with the project even after learning that her "leading man" was a 50-foot Read More

The Jewel

Crew: Book Author

Criminal at Large

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Emlyn Williams, Cathleen Nesbitt, Norman McKinnel, Gordon Harker, Cyril Raymond

Synopsis: The Criminal at Large in this quota quickie murders his victims in the dark of night. There seems to be a pattern to the killer's activities, but darned if Chief Inspector Tanner (Norman McKinnel) can figure it out. It looks as though dilettante sleuth Lord Lebanon (Emlyn Williams) will have to Read More

Der Hexer

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Maria Solveig, Vera Engels, Fritz Rasp, Paul Richter

Synopsis: Der Hexer was based on The Sorcerer, a detective story by workhorse British author Edgar Wallace. The original story was a thrilling, intricately plotted murder mystery involving a master criminal and a wily detective. According to contemporary reviews, however, the film version threw out much of Read More

The Frightened Lady

Crew: Book Author

The Menace

Crew: Book Author

Bachelor's Folly

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: The racetrack provides the setting for this melodrama that centers upon the owner of a racehorse who is jilted by a conniving, money-grubbing young woman after his money runs out. Soon after leaving him, she marries the brother of the owner's lovely horsetrainer. At the same time, the owner's Read More

The Old Man

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Cecil Humphreys, Lester Matthews, Gerald Rawlinson

Synopsis: Based on a stage play by Edgar Wallace, The Old Man is nowhere near as benign as its title. The eponymous character is a mysterious, never-seen criminal mastermind, who specializes in bumping off other criminals. Scotland Yard traces the Old Man to a rustic inn, where the villain could be anybody Read More

The Ringer

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Patric Curwen, Franklin Dyall, Carol Goodner, Gordon Harker, Esmond Knight

Synopsis: In this mystery, a master of disguises commits a series of crimes. He is so good, that no one knows what he really looks like. He even masquerades as a doctor and kills his own partner who has been under police protection because he agreed to lead him to the crook. Later it is revealed the Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Elizabeth Vaughan, John Stuart, Reginald Bach

Synopsis: This first talkie version of Conan Doyle's classic thriller The Hound of the Baskervilles stars Robert Rendel as master detective Sherlock Holmes. Though the story has been modernized, the basic sequence of events remains. After being apprised of the curse of the Baskervilles by Dr. Mortimer Read More

The Calendar

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Herbert Marshall, Edna Best

Synopsis: Based on a stage play by Edgar Wallace, The Calendar is set amongst Britain's horsey set. Herbert Marshall and his then-wife Edna Best star as a wealthy racehorse owner and his pretty trainer. After divesting Marshall of his millions, his mistress Anne Grey leaves him in favor of a younger Read More

To Oblige a Lady

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Warwick Ward, Haddon Mason, James Carew

Synopsis: An Edgar Wallace story was at the base of this turgid British comedy-drama. Music-hall favorite Maisie Gay stars as a dimwitted cook who goes to work for young marrieds Warwick Ward and Mary Newcomb. Gay's ineptitude sabotages an important dinner party, very nearly losing Ward his cushy job. But Read More

Der Zinker

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Lissi Arna, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Fritz Rasp, Paul Hoerbiger

Synopsis: Der Zinker (To Squeal) was based on The Squeaker, a mystery play by Edgar Wallace. The hero is a Scotland Yard detective who poses as an ex-convict. It's all part of a strategy to capture a notorious and elusive fence known as "The Squeaker," who cloaks his criminal activities behind a facade of Read More

The Crimson Circle

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Stewart Rome, Louis Lerch

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1915 and 1922, The Crimson Circle was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. The story concentrates on the exploits of Derek Yale, the elusive young head of a blackmailing operation. Dogging Yale's trail at every turn is relentless Scotland Yard inspector Parr. In hopes of Read More

The Yellow Mask

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Warwick Ward, Dorothy Seacombe, Wilfred Temple, Haddon Mason

Synopsis: One of the first talkie adaptations of an Edgar Wallace story, The Yellow Mask is set in motion by the skullduggery of Chinese nobleman Li San (Warwick Ward). With the reluctant aid of heroine Mary Trayne (Douglas Secombe), Li San manages to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Read More

Should a Doctor Tell?

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Norah Baring, Basil Gill, Gladys Jennings, Maurice Evans, Anna Neagle

Synopsis: Dr. Bruce Smith (Basil Gill) refuses to violate his Hippocratic oath of secrecy by testifying in a divorce case. This earns him widespread public approval but ends up boomeranging on him when he learns that his son Roger's (Maurice Evans) fiancee Joan (Norah Murray) is pregnant with another man's Read More

The Squeaker

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This suspenseful crime drama is the first talkie to be based on a novel by Edgar Wallace (he also directed the film). It tells the story of a Scotland Yard detective who goes undercover as an ex-con so he can capture the "Squeaker" a powerful fence who is pretending to be the upright chairman of a Read More

The Clue of the New Pin

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The Clue of the New Pin is a vintage British mystery based on a story by Edgar Wallace about a "perfect murder." A nephew discovers the corpse of his wealthy uncle in a vault with a key laying beside the body as the only clue. A newspaper reporter helps clear the prime suspect and reveal the Read More

The Ringer

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Faber, Annette Benson, Nigel Barrie, Hayford Hobbs, Lawson Butt

The Terror

Crew: Play Author

Actors: May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, Edward Everett Horton, Alec B. Francis, Matthew Betz

Chick

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Bramwell Fletcher, Trilby Clark, Chili Boucher, Edward O'Neill

The Green Archer [Serial]

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The first screen version of Edgar Wallace's The Green Archer starred the Pathé company's popular team of Allene Ray and Walter Miller with Burr McIntosh -- of Way Down East fame (or infamy) -- as the mysterious millionaire Abel Bellamy, whose castle on the Hudson was brought over from England Read More