The Malpas Mystery

The Malpas Mystery
Directed by	Sidney Hayers
Written by	Paul Tabori Gordon Wellesley
Based on	novel The Face in the Night by Edgar Wallace
Produced by	Julian Wintle Leslie Parkyn
Starring	Maureen Swanson Allan Cuthbertson Geoffrey Keen
Cinematography	Michael Reed
Edited by	Tristam Cones
Music by	Elisabeth Lutyens
Production companies	Independent Artists Langton Productions
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date	October 1960 (1960-10) (UK)
Running time	69 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Malpas Mystery is a 1960 British 'B' movie crime film, directed by Sidney Hayers.^[1] Although originally made by Independent Artists at Beaconsfield studios, it was included in the Merton Park series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries.^[2][3] When Audrey is released from prison, she finds herself embroiled with mysterious doctors, missing heirs, diamonds and murder.

Cast[]

• Maureen Swanson as Audrey Bedford
• Allan Cuthbertson as Lacey Marshalt
• Geoffrey Keen as Torrington
• Ronald Howard as Dick Shannon
• Sandra Dorne as Dora Elton
• Alan Tilvern as Gordon Seager
• Leslie French as Witkins
• Catherine Feller as Jinette
• Richard Shaw as Kornfeldt
• Sheila Allen as Frau Kornfeldt
• Edward Cast as Laker

Critical reception[]

The Spinning Image called it "One of the best of the ‘Edgar Wallace’ series (if we accept it as one of the series), The Malpas Mystery is very impressively filmed for a cheap second feature and a step above the rather flat and boring items of the same period."^[4]

References[]

External links[]

• The Malpas Mystery at IMDb
• The Malpas Mystery at BFI
• The Malpas Mystery at Letterbox
• Review at Spinning Image

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