Rent The Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Vol.6 (1964)
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- Synopsis:
The thrillers of Edgar Wallace, one of the twentieth century's most successful crime novelists, have been widely adapted for film and television - the most memorable of which being the 'Edgar Wallace Mysteries' series, made at Merton Park Studios during the first half of the 1960's. A noir-esque series, it updates some of the author's stories to more contemporary settings, blending classic B-movie elements with a distinctly British feel. Unseen for decades, these dramas have been freshly transferred from the original film elements specifically for this release. This sixth volume includes top-notch performances from Peter Barkworth, Nigel Davenport, Faith Brook, Bernard Lee and Jeremy Kemp, and features scripts by Roger Marshall jimmy Sangster, Robert Banks Stewart and novelist Arthur La Bern. - Actors:
- Cec Linder, Zena Marshall, Nigel Davenport, Paul Stassino, Derek Francis, John Bryans, Derek Partridge, John Glyn-Jones, David Cargill, Derek Aylward, William Dysart, John Moore, Kenneth Benda, William Raynor, Denis Holmes, Dorinda Stevens, Phyllis Rose, Sidonie Bond, John Murray Scott, Peter Thomas
- Directors:
- David Eady, John Llewellyn Moxey, Quentin Lawrence, Geoffrey Nethercott, Alan Bridges, John Nelson-Burton
- Producers:
- Jack Greenwood
- Writers:
- Roger Marshall, Jimmy Sangster, Arthur La Bern, Robert Banks Stewart, Edgar Wallace, Donal Giltinan, Lewis Davidson
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Mysteries, TV Thrillers
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Wriggle Room - The Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Vol.6 review by CH
Fifty years before Air BandB, there was something to give any viewer pause before signing the Agreement.
With the penultimate series of Edgar Wallace Presents..., it had looked as if things might be going off a bit - and then along comes this hour-long drama Act of Murder, which is a corker.
Put simply, a couple in an inherited, antiques-laden Surrey cottage exchange it for a house in central London in order to be immersed in a dozen plays while the other couple (one of whom is Dandy Nichols) can savour the rural air - not that Dandy ever looks likely to doff her heavweight togs any time soon.
Along with the antiques, the cottage is also home to a charming dog, a budgie and some hens (the latter have their own premises).
Naturally, matters take a different turn from that which any of them expected.
You might have your suspicions; I had mine; and we could all keep guessing.
This being series six, the Sixties have moved on a few years, and there is even a nude scene. Well, Justine Lord is filmed from behind, upon a bed as, after a few lines of dialogue, she wriggles into a new nightie. A scence which is as well lit as the rest, much of which takes place in a cottage so laden that it also takes some manoevering (which makes one fear the worst during a party scene).