The Malpas Mystery

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Movie
Original title The Malpas Mystery
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1960
length 69 minutes
Rod
Director Sidney Hayers
script Paul Tabori , Gordon Wellesley , Edgar Wallace
production Julian Wintle ,
Leslie Parkyn
music Elisabeth Lutyens
camera Michael Reed
cut Tristam Cones
occupation

The Malpas Mystery (translated "The Malpas Secret") is a British crime film directed by Sidney Hayers in 1960 . It was produced by the film company Merton Park Studios . The screenplay was written by Paul Tabori and Gordon Wellesley and is based on the novel The Face in the Night (dt. The face in the dark ) by Edgar Wallace on. The film was the third part of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries , a series of 47 Edgar Wallace film adaptations made by Merton Park Studios between 1960 and 1965; it was never shown in Germany.

action

Audrey Bedford, who lives in the country, has to give up her apartment for financial reasons and moves to London to live with her sister Dora. She and her husband, Lacey Marshalt, are criminals who specialize in diamond theft. They use Audrey as a courier to transport a valuable necklace that was stolen from the Swedish Queen. She is arrested with the jewelry and although Inspector Dick Shannon is convinced of her innocence and realizes the truth, Audrey covers her sister and is imprisoned for nine months. After her discharge, she takes on a job as a secretary to a mysterious Mr. Malpas in the neighborhood. Although Inspector Shannon has Audrey watched, one day she disappeared.

Reviews

In their Das Edgar Wallace Lexikon from 2004, Joachim Kramp and Jürgen Wehnert cite a review of the film by the Monthly Film Bulletin . Accordingly, the film is "slightly above the average of the new Edgar Wallace films by Merton Park." He conjures up an "aura of mystery" and flaunts a star cast of Geoffrey Keen , Allan Cuthbertson and Leslie French as well as Maureen Swanson as a "spirited heroine ".

supporting documents

  1. ^ "The Malpas Mystery." In: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: Das Edgar Wallace Lexikon. Life, work, films. It is impossible not to be captivated by Edgar Wallace! Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004; Pp. 406-407. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .
  2. ^ Review of the Monthly Film Bulletin from February 1962, quoted from "The Malpas Mystery." In: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: Das Edgar Wallace Lexikon. Life, work, films. It is impossible not to be captivated by Edgar Wallace! Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004; Pp. 406-407. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .

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