The Man at the Carlton Tower

Movie
Original title	The Man at the Carlton Tower
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	1961
length	57 minutes
Rod
Director	Robert Tronson
script	James Eastwood , Edgar Wallace
production	Jack Greenwood , ; Jim O'Connolly
music	Ron Goodwin
camera	Bert Mason
cut	Bernard Gribble
occupation
	Lee Montague : Tim Jordan; Allan Cuthbertson : Superintendent Cowley; Maxine Audley : Lydia Daney; Terence Alexander : Johnny Time; Alfred Burke : Harry Stone; Nigel Green : Lew Daney; Nyree Dawn Porter : Mary Greer; Geoffrey Frederick : Sergeant Pepper; Geoffrey Lumsden : Stocker; Frank Forsyth : Commissionaire; Steven Scott : Gallo;

The Man at the Carlton Tower (translated "The Man in the Carlton Tower") is a British crime film directed by Robert Tronson from 1961 . It was produced by the film company Merton Park Studios . The screenplay comes from Philip Mackie and builds on the novel The Man at the Carlton (Eng. "The man from the Carlton") by Edgar Wallace . The film was one of the first parts 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

Superintendent Cowley is investigating the Rhodesian Lew Daney, whom he wants to convict for stealing jewels. He is assisted by former police officer Tim Jordan, who is shadowing Daney's former partner Harry Stone. He meets Lydia Daney, who tells him about her husband's flirtation with Mary Greer. Greer lives in a country house in Surrey , where Jordan suspects Daney to be. While trying to track him down there, he is ambushed. Mary Greer's butler is killed and Jordan finds Daney's cigarette case on his body. Finally he succeeds in clearing up other intrigues in which Harry Stone and Lydia Daney are also involved, Lew Daney together with the stolen jewels and to kill Daney.

Reviews

In their Das Edgar Wallace Lexikon from 2004, Joachim Kramp and Jürgen Wehnert cite a review of the film in the 1961 Monthly Film Bulletin . This introduces it as the “latest flick from the Edgar Wallace crime film series” and describes it as a “mixture of conclusive dialogues, shootings and a lot of publicity for the new Carlton Tower Hotel” with the “flair of a television series”. It praises the actor Alfred Burke , who "gives his role as a villain a new style of gentle threat", but at the same time finds "the end when he loses both his booty and his life (...) confused and unconvincing".

supporting documents

^ "Man at the Carlton Tower, The." 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. 407-408. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .
^ Review of the Monthly Film Bulletin from September 1961, quoted from "Man at the Carlton Tower, The." 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. 407-408. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .

Web links

The Man at the Carlton Tower in the Internet Movie Database (English)

[Kramp_&_Wehnert_2004-1] "Man at the Carlton Tower, The." 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. 407-408. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .

[Kramp_&_Wehnert_2004_MFB-2] Review of the Monthly Film Bulletin from September 1961, quoted from "Man at the Carlton Tower, The." 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. 407-408. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .