Flat two

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Movie
Original title Flat two
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1962
length 60 minutes
Rod
Director Alan Cooke
script Lindsay Galloway , Edgar Wallace
production Jack Greenwood ,
Jim O'Connolly
music Bernard Ebbinghouse
camera Bert Mason
cut Derek Holding
occupation

Flat Two (translated as "Apartment Two") is a British crime film directed by Alan Cooke from 1962 . It was produced by the film company Merton Park Studios . The script comes from the scriptwriter Lindsay Galloway and builds on the novel of the same name (German publication as Louba der Spieler ) by Edgar Wallace . The film was part of the first half of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries , a series of 47 Edgar Wallace film adaptations made by Merton Park Studios between 1960 and 1965.

action

Professional player Emil Louba is found dead in his apartment. Scotland Yard Inspector Trainer identifies three suspects who may have committed the murder: Attorney Warden, who was a member of Louba's West End Club, Louba's former pal, Charles Berry, and architect Frank Leamington. Charles Berry had fallen out with Louba after a quarrel over a wife, and Leamington's motive was heavy debts his fiancée had amassed with Louba. Since Leamington's motives weigh heaviest, he is charged with the murder. The lawyer Warden takes over the defense; due to a detail that only the murderer could know, however, he reveals himself as the murderer of Louba at the trial.

Reviews and translation

In their Das Edgar Wallace Lexikon from 2004, Joachim Kramp and Jürgen Wehnert cite a review of the film in the 1962 Monthly Film Bulletin . This describes it as an "episode without any tension." The "implausible story" is "built too much on verbal explanations, and neither the direction nor the characterization of the characters are strong enough to keep it going." but at least the performance of the actor is "competent".

Unlike most of the Merton Park films, the film was also shown in Germany. It was edited by Rank-Filmverleih in Hamburg as The Murderer Catches Himself together with Death came faster than the money , a translated version of the film Death Trap for the film The Dagger in the Back and published in July 1963.

supporting documents

  1. ^ "Flat Two." In: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: The Edgar Wallace Lexicon. Life, work, films. It is impossible not to be captivated by Edgar Wallace! Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004; Pp. 193-194. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .
  2. ^ Review of the Monthly Film Bulletin from May 1962, quoted from "Flat Two." In: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: The Edgar Wallace Lexicon. Life, work, films. It is impossible not to be captivated by Edgar Wallace! Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004; Pp. 193-194. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .
  3. ↑ "Dagger in the back, the." In: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: The Edgar Wallace Lexikon. Life, work, films. It is impossible not to be captivated by Edgar Wallace! Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004; 136. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .

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