Jeanette Sterke (Mary Winston), Alan McNaughton (John Cleeve), Robert Brown (Richard Harrison), Jane Griffiths (Jane Winston), Basil Henson (Derreck Alwyn), Anne Lawson (Sally Carter), Diane Clare (Selena Osmond), Llewellyn Rees (Bradshaw), John Miller (Sir Harry Osmond), Dorothea Rundle (Martha Bradshaw), Hamilton Dyce (Ames), Henry McCarty (Dr Leighton), Tony Wall (Logan), Patrick Parnell (Cooper), Arlette Dobson (Karen), David Charlesworth (Charles), Brian McGrellis (delivery boy), Ron Eagleton (porter), Derek Sumner (policeman), Thelma Holt (Marie), Jannie Talley (Patsy).
Director: LIONEL HARRIS. Screenplay: Lindsay Galloway, John Roddick. Based on the 1928 novel by Edgar Wallace. Photography: James Wilson. Camera operator: Peter Allwork. Film editor: Edward B. Jarvis. Art director: Peter Mullins. Make-up: Michael Morris. Hair styles: Hilda Fox. Music director: Bernard Ebbinghouse. Title music: Michael Carr. Casting director: Ronald Curtis. Production manager: Ron Fry. Wardrobe: Eileen Welch. Assistant director: Maurice Gibson. Set continuity: Marjorie Owens. Sound editor: Roy Newman. Sound recording: Sidney Rider, Eric Stockl. Producer: Jack Greenwood.
Copyright 1963 by Merton Park Studios. U.K. release through Anglo- Amalgamated: 15 September 1963. Never theatrically released in the USA, but aired in April 1963 as an episode in TV's "Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre". 56 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: An amnesiac believes that he killed his partner in South Africa. The identities of both amnesiac and victim cannot be found.
NOTES: Number 30 of Merton Park's 51 "Edgar Wallace" movies as follows: Clue of the Twisted Candle, Marriage of Convenience, Malpas Mystery, Man Who Was Nobody, Clue of the New Pin, Fourth Square, Partners in Crime, Clue of the Silver Key, Attempt To Kill, Man at the Carlton Tower, Never Back Losers, Sinister Man, Man Detained, Candidate for Murder, Backfire, Flat Two, Share Out, Time To Remember, Number Six, Solo for Sparrow, Death Tap, Playback, Locker 69, Set Up, Incident at Midnight, Return to Sender, Ricochet, 20,000 Pound Kiss, On the Run, the Double, the Partner, the Rivals, Five to One, Accidental Death, Downfall, the Verdict, the Witness, Urge to Kill, Crossroads to Crime, We Shall See, Violent Moment, Who Was Maddox?, Face of a Stranger, Act of Murder, Never Mention Murder, Main Chance, Game for Three Losers, To Have and To Hold, Change Partners, Strangler's Web, Dead Man's Chest.
COMMENT: The only theatrical movie directed by TV producer and director and one-time actor (Brandy for the Parson, Ivanhoe, Laxdale Hall), Lionel Harris, this is an over-talkative affair with very little action even at the long-awaited climax.
For all its excessive talk, however, the plot is reasonably intriguing, if somewhat implausible. Harris does what he can to improve our lot by making effective use of real locations and drawing uniformly competent performances from his players. The film's modest production values have also been well disguised by skilled teamwork behind the camera. Photography is notably slick.
Director: LIONEL HARRIS. Screenplay: Lindsay Galloway, John Roddick. Based on the 1928 novel by Edgar Wallace. Photography: James Wilson. Camera operator: Peter Allwork. Film editor: Edward B. Jarvis. Art director: Peter Mullins. Make-up: Michael Morris. Hair styles: Hilda Fox. Music director: Bernard Ebbinghouse. Title music: Michael Carr. Casting director: Ronald Curtis. Production manager: Ron Fry. Wardrobe: Eileen Welch. Assistant director: Maurice Gibson. Set continuity: Marjorie Owens. Sound editor: Roy Newman. Sound recording: Sidney Rider, Eric Stockl. Producer: Jack Greenwood.
Copyright 1963 by Merton Park Studios. U.K. release through Anglo- Amalgamated: 15 September 1963. Never theatrically released in the USA, but aired in April 1963 as an episode in TV's "Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre". 56 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: An amnesiac believes that he killed his partner in South Africa. The identities of both amnesiac and victim cannot be found.
NOTES: Number 30 of Merton Park's 51 "Edgar Wallace" movies as follows: Clue of the Twisted Candle, Marriage of Convenience, Malpas Mystery, Man Who Was Nobody, Clue of the New Pin, Fourth Square, Partners in Crime, Clue of the Silver Key, Attempt To Kill, Man at the Carlton Tower, Never Back Losers, Sinister Man, Man Detained, Candidate for Murder, Backfire, Flat Two, Share Out, Time To Remember, Number Six, Solo for Sparrow, Death Tap, Playback, Locker 69, Set Up, Incident at Midnight, Return to Sender, Ricochet, 20,000 Pound Kiss, On the Run, the Double, the Partner, the Rivals, Five to One, Accidental Death, Downfall, the Verdict, the Witness, Urge to Kill, Crossroads to Crime, We Shall See, Violent Moment, Who Was Maddox?, Face of a Stranger, Act of Murder, Never Mention Murder, Main Chance, Game for Three Losers, To Have and To Hold, Change Partners, Strangler's Web, Dead Man's Chest.
COMMENT: The only theatrical movie directed by TV producer and director and one-time actor (Brandy for the Parson, Ivanhoe, Laxdale Hall), Lionel Harris, this is an over-talkative affair with very little action even at the long-awaited climax.
For all its excessive talk, however, the plot is reasonably intriguing, if somewhat implausible. Harris does what he can to improve our lot by making effective use of real locations and drawing uniformly competent performances from his players. The film's modest production values have also been well disguised by skilled teamwork behind the camera. Photography is notably slick.
