Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace

Рождение : 1875-04-01, London, England, UK

Смерть : 1932-02-10

Профиль

Edgar Wallace

Фильмы

Конг: Остров черепа
Characters
Действие фильма переносит зрителя в 70-е года прошлого века. Главный герой организует экспедицию к Острову Черепа, вечно покрытого туманом, на котором когда-то был пойман Кинг-Конг, чтобы найти пропавшего брата и некую таинственную субстанцию. Во время нелегких поисков путешественникам предстоит столкнуться с кошмарным миром монстров жуткого острова.
Edgar Wallace - Die vier Gerechten
Author
Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "The Four Righteous" are not of this opinion, however: "Sentenced to death and executed for countless crimes" they leave at the scene. More "honorable" personalities must die before the perfume Higgins betrays the murderer and exposes the "honorable personalities" as heads of the organized trafficking of girls.
Edgar Wallace - Das Schloss des Grauens
Writer
There is good reason for Sir Douglas Wonderly to summon the family and a lawyer to his stately home. He wants to announce a change in his will. At the same time, a dangerous mental patient escapes from a nearby psychiatric ward. Higgins and Lane are put on his trail. But the arrest of the psychopath proves to be extremely difficult. Shortly thereafter, a mysterious hooded man is on the loose in the castle. He frightens Sir Wonderly so much that the old man suffers a shock and falls into a coma. But that's not all: the will suddenly disappears and two sons are murdered. Sir John personally intervenes to solve the case with Higgins and Lane.
Edgar Wallace - Die Katze von Kensington
Novel
Whenever a criminal is killed in London, a black Jaguar is nearby, with a white cat always sitting in the passenger seat. Inspector Higgins and Inspector Lane find a joker card on all the victims. Their investigation leads them to a diamond smuggling ring.
Кинг Конг жив
Characters
Чтобы вылечить Кинг-Конга после падения с крыши Международного Торгового Центра потребовалось хирургическое вмешательство лучших кардиологов. Никто и никогда еще не проделывал операций такого масштаба. Как раз во время того, как огромное, механическое сердце застучало в груди царя обезьян, в далеких тропических лесах Индонезии был найден еще один Кинг-Конг! Но на этот раз это оказалась леди. И влюбчивый Кинг-Конг не смог перед ней устоять. Призывный клич самки оживит его и пошлет вперед, на новые «подвиги», на новые разрушения и схватки с армией…
Die Schokoladenschnüffler
Novel
A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
Novel
The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the murder of the Brittish Ambassador happened during a holiday in his residence. Blimp receives the help of Keats, agent of the secret service. Both men discover that the man who shot against the Ambassador is blind, and it takes the black skin as a result of a strange phenomenon of mutation.
Růžový Hubert
Novel
Дело испуганной леди
Writer
Ночь в монастыре Маркс, одиноком загородном доме дворянской семьи Леван. Незнакомец идёт по темному парку. В замке всё тихо, но Аисла Крейн, племянница властной леди Леван, спит беспокойно. Внезапно раздаётся пронзительный крик. Чуть позже Уильям Стадд, шофер молодого лорда Вилли, был найден мёртвым в парке. Мотив убийства неясен, тем более что изначально всё выглядит так, как будто мертвец был человеком не имеющим врагов. Однако, как выясняет главный суперинтендант Таннер, улики говорят против этого: это индийский шарф, который использовался для убийства врагов в его стране происхождения.
Что они сделали с Соланж?
Novel
В колледже происходит серия убийств учениц. Одним из главных подозреваемых в совершенных преступлениях становится молодой преподаватель, который пытается скрыть свои отношения с одной из учащихся.
Семь орхидей с кровавыми пятнами
Story
Неизвестный совершает убийства женщин. Единственный ключ к разгадке личности маньяка, его мотивов и связи между жертвами — медальоны в виде полумесяцев, которые он оставляет на бездыханных телах.
Окровавленная бабочка
Writer
Молодой пианист Джорджио безумно влюблен в свою подругу Франсуазу. Но вскоре его счастье заканчивается: девушку убивает в парке неизвестный маньяк. И хотя полиция арестовывает в качестве подозреваемого мужчину средних лет по имени Алессандро, Джорджио не может удовлетвориться судебным приговором. Ситуация вскоре серьезно запутывается, когда пианист знакомится с девушкой Сарой, которая оказывается дочерью Алессандро. Она уверяет молодого человека, что ее отец не мог совершить это преступление...
Мертвец из Темзы
Novel
Экс-балерина Мирна Фергюссон убита в отеле, однако её труп бесследно исчезает до приезда полиции. А на следующий день из Австралии прибывает её сестра Дэнни, которая с первых же часов своего пребывания в Лондоне чувствует, что находится под пристальным наблюдением людей, возможно причастных к убийству Мирны. Пока полиция пытается выйти на их след, в деле появляется ещё несколько трупов, и кольцо вокруг Дэнни сужается.
The Devil Came from Akasava
Novel
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!
Double Face
Novel
A millionare is unwittingly led into murder by his lesbian wife.
The Man with the Glass Eye
Writer
A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his jacket pocket. Kurt after that a second, mysterious murder happens: A city-famous dancer of the Las Vegas Girls, who perform at the London Odeon Theater, is poisoned. Is there a connection between the pretty dancer and the hotel guest? Inspector Perkins and his colleagues are pressed for time. The "man with the glass eye" strikes deadly again and again. A first clue leads Scotland Yard to a billiard club, where one has to show a glass eye as an admission ticket.
Gorilla Gang
Novel
In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can benefit the organization. This film is one of a very large number of German Scotland-Yard thrillers based on the novels of Edgar Wallace.
The Zombie Walks
Novel
A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.
The Monster of Blackwood Castle
Novel
Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
Монах с хлыстом
Novel
Во время церковной службы одна из воспитанниц пансиона Фостерс погибает. Инспектор Хиггинс подозревает учителя химии и брата миссис Фостерс Марка Денвера, в саду которого девушки устраивают вечеринки. Однажды ночью там появляется монах в красном, и еще одну девушку находят мертвой. И Хиггинс догадывается, кто станет следующей жертвой.
Five Golden Dragons
Story
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
Creature with the Blue Hand
Novel
Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.
The Trygon Factor
Novel
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.
Горбун из Сохо
Story
Ванда Мервилль едет в Лондон, чтобы вступить в права наследства. Но вместо этого ее похищают и отвозят в замок Блэквуд, где расположен женский пансион, связанный с лондонскими наркоторговцами. После того, как одна из воспитанниц пансиона была задушена таинственным Горбуном, инспектор Хопкинс принимается за поиски убийцы. Расследование преступления обретает иную окраску, когда выясняется, что глава Скотланд-Ярда сэр Джон является близким другом хозяйки пансиона…
Цирк страха
Novel
Бандиты грабят на лондонском мосту посреди бела дня машину, перевозящую 250 тысяч фунтов стерлингов. Все проходит нормально, пока один из бандитов по имени Мейсон не начинает паниковать и стреляет в водителя машины. Его товарищи решают убить Мейсона, но руководитель налета останавливает их. Он приказывает отправить Мейсона и деньги в укромное место. Остальные грабители скрываются в своем обычном убежище, но вскоре анонимное сообщение инспектору Скотланд-Ярда Эллиотту позволяет их арестовать. Тем временем, следуя инструкциям своего босса, Мейсон с деньгами прибывает в кажущийся пустым амбар, где получает нож в спину от неизвестного. Расследование полиции заходит в тупик, так как следов последнего налетчика и исчезнувшие деньги обнаружить не удается. Но вскоре расследование сдвигается с мертвой точки, когда исчезнувшие банкноты выдаются в качестве зарплаты артистам цирка Барберини...
The Sinister Monk
Novel
A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.
Again the Ringer
Novel
Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.
Traitor's Gate
Novel
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Face of a Stranger
Novel
A man released from prison falls in love with the blind wife of a cellmate, whom he promised, when inside, to visit. He poses as the real husband, planning to kill him, but finds the wife is not so innocent as he thought.
The Ringer
Novel
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again.
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Novel
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
Комната 13
Novel
Шайка отъявленных головорезов собирается в комнате под номером 13 в одном захудалом отеле Сохо для подготовки разбойного нападения на поезд. В назначенный час они должны встретиться у особняка одного из членов Парламента, которого в последнее время стали шантажировать за его связь с преступными группировками. В это же время таинственный маньяк убивает женщину острой бритвой. Детективу Джону Грею поручено расследовать ужасные преступления.
Death Drums Along the River
Story
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
The Indian Scarf
Novel
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.
The Black Abbot
Novel
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.
To Have and to Hold
Novel
A young woman is harassed by a man and seeks help from the police. The officer who visits her falls in love with her, but shortly after she is murdered.
The Squeaker
Novel
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
The Double
Novel
A man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.
The Curse of the Yellow Snake
Novel
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
The Inn on the River
Novel
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
Дверь на семи замках
Novel
Двое мужчин убиты. На каждом теле полиция обнаруживает одинаковые ключи. Расследование приводит инспектора Мартина в поместье лорда Селфордса. Перед смертью лорд Селфордс дал семерым друзьям ключи, которые отпирают дверь в фамильную сокровищницу...
Тайна красной орхидеи
Novel
Две гангстерские группировки держат Лондон в страхе и шантажируют миллионеров: если они откажутся платить или позвонят в полицию, им грозит ужасная расправа. Секретарша мистера Таннерса, узнает, что ее боса тоже шантажируют, и сообщает об этом инспектору из Скотланд Ярда.
Backfire!
Novel
Arson is the way out for a failing cosmetics company.
Never Back Losers
Novel
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.
The Sinister Man
Novel
When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.
The Strange Countess
Novel
Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
The Forger of London
Novel
A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.
Attempt to Kill
Novel
A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.
The Devil's Daffodil
Novel
A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
Dead Eyes of London
Novel
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
The Green Archer
Novel
The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy (Gerd Fröbe, in fine intimidating form) is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor.Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece Valerie (Karin Dor) arriving with her adoptive father to take up residence in the adjacent mansion, much to Bellamy's annoyance, the archer has returned. Who is he and what does he want?
Clue of the New Pin
Story
TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.
Marriage of Convenience
Story
A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.
The Man Who Was Nobody
Novel
A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.
Edgar Wallace - Die Bande des Schreckens
Novel
A creepy German-made Wallace thriller about the ghost of a hanged man who returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!
The Avenger
Novel
A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.
Красный круг
Novel
Таинственная серия убийств держит весь Лондон в мучительном страхе. Состоятельные горожане подвергаются наглому шантажу. Жертвы, не выполнившие требования или обратившиеся в полицию, безжалостно убиты. На месте преступления убийца оставляет знак – зловещий красный круг. Горячий след приводит детективный дуэт – инспектора Парра из Скотланд Ярда и частного детектива Деррика Ялла к подозреваемому в Париж
Лягушка в маске
Novel
Инспектор Скотланд Ярда и американский детектив-любитель разыскивают преступника по кличке «Лягушка». Это прозвище он получил за маску с выпученными глазами, в которой он совершает преступления, и за татуировки лягушек у него на руках. Следствие приводит их в поместье загадочного миллионера, в дочку которого влюбляются и американец, и преступник…
Der Hexer
Original Story
The Ringer
Theatre Play
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
The Calendar
Novel
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
The Missing Million
Writer
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder...
The Green Archer
Novel
Columbia's 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940's "Deadwood Dick" and ahead of 1941's "White Eagle") is another of director's James Horne's "classics" where he evidently figured that the same reactions that served him well in Laurel and Hardy films would work well in action serials where he has all hands, heroes and villains alike, doing some kind of over-the top "take", no matter the situation. This loose adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story finds Michael Bellamy (Kenne Duncan in his Kenneth Duncan period) inheriting Garr Castle, but his brother, Abel Bellamy (James Craven, as usual making Oil-Can Harry look smooth), has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself. When Michael's wife, Elaine Bellamy (Dorothy Fay), fails to return after visiting Abel, her sister Valerie Howett (Iris Meredith), accompanied by their father,
The Door with Seven Locks
Novel
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
The Case of the Frightened Lady
Theatre Play
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
A Criminal at Large
Writer
At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin. But Isla is reluctant to do so, and is also frightened by the two footmen of the household who she suspects of locking her in her room at night. Following a village dance, the household's chauffeur is found strangled with an Indian scarf.
The Dark Eyes of London
Novel
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
The Four Just Men
Novel
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Flying Fifty-Five
Novel
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
Пропавшие люди
Novel
Дж.Г. Ридер, пожилой джентльмен, возомнивший себя детективом, решает расследовать странное исчезновение 27 состоятельных людей, исчезнувших при схожих обстоятельствах.
The Return of the Frog
Writer
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
The Gaunt Stranger
Novel
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
Thank Evans
Writer
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
The Terror
Writer
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
Кейт плюс десять
Novel
Кейт - секретарь лорда Флэмборо. Но она также является лидером преступной группировки. Сможет ли Майк Пембертон поймать ее с поличным?
Dangerous to Know
Novel
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
Тайна 13-й комнаты
Novel
Банк Англии нанимает мистера Ридера для для расследования деятельности банды фальшивомонетчиков.
The Squeaker
Novel
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Chick
Novel
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
Educated Evans
Novel
Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
The Crimson Circle
Novel
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
Prison Breaker
Novel
A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..
Сандерс с реки
Story
Британский офицер Сандерс управляет одной из территорий в английской колонии Нигерии. Его стиль управления жесткий, но справедливый. По долгу службы ему приходится бороться с контрабандистами и работорговцами. В этом ему помогает его местный вождь Босамбо. Когда Сандерс отправляется в Англию на свою свадьбу, контрабандисты пускают слух о его смерти, и Басамбо решается на опустошительный набег.
The Lad
Writer
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.
The Feathered Serpent
Novel
A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
Return of the Terror
Theatre Play
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Mystery Liner
Novel
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
The Man Who Changed His Name
Dialogue
A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
The Man Who Changed His Name
Theatre Play
A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
Der Doppelgänger
Novel
Giallo
Story
The homonymy of her husband with a criminal who has several murders on his conscience, committed in Canada, scaring the young wife who is a passionate reader of mystery novels and has a guilty conscience
The Jewel
Novel
A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
Before Dawn
Story
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
Кинг Конг
Idea
Интересно смотреть на эту ленту с высоты прошедших лет, и с удивлением отмечать высокое мастерство спецэффектов, грамотную режиссуру и добротный сценарий. Начинаются приключения с того, что на отдаленном, диком острове научная экспедиция захватывает громадную человекообразную обезьяну и, не мудрствуя лукаво, привозит ее в Нью-Йорк для показа праздной публике. Кто бы мог подумать, что этот жуткий монстр, способен на такое тонкое чувство, как любовь - эта чертова обезьяна, жить не может без миниатюрной и нежной главной героини...
Кинг Конг
Story
Интересно смотреть на эту ленту с высоты прошедших лет, и с удивлением отмечать высокое мастерство спецэффектов, грамотную режиссуру и добротный сценарий. Начинаются приключения с того, что на отдаленном, диком острове научная экспедиция захватывает громадную человекообразную обезьяну и, не мудрствуя лукаво, привозит ее в Нью-Йорк для показа праздной публике. Кто бы мог подумать, что этот жуткий монстр, способен на такое тонкое чувство, как любовь - эта чертова обезьяна, жить не может без миниатюрной и нежной главной героини...
The Ringer
Novel
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
The Flying Squad
Novel
The officers of the Flying Squad attempt to track down a drug-smuggling gang.
White Face
Theatre Play
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
The Frightened Lady
Theatre Play
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
The Old Man
Theatre Play
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Old Man
Screenplay
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Calendar
Theatre Play
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
The Squeeker
Novel
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Writer
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a plot to have Sir Henry murdered by a terrible trained hound.
The Ringer
Novel
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
To Oblige a Lady
Theatre Play
A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.
Red Aces
Producer
A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.
Red Aces
Screenplay
A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.
Red Aces
Director
A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.
Should a Doctor Tell?
Screenplay
A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the hypocratic oath.
The Yellow Mask
Theatre Play
A musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman.
The Squeaker
Story
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
The Squeaker
Screenplay
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
The Squeaker
Director
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
The Valley of Ghosts
Novel
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Valley of Ghosts
Writer
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Wrecker
Novel
The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
The Crimson Circle
Novel
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Clue of the New Pin
Novel
A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
The Terror
Theatre Play
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
Der große Unbekannte
Novel
The Green Archer
Novel
The Flying Fifty-Five
Novel
A Lord poses as a stableboy and rides a girl's horse when a crooked knight injures her jockey.
The Diamond Man
Novel
Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.
Down Under Donovan
Novel
An ex-crook's horse wins despite his crooked rival and regains the formula for a malleable glass from a Russian.
The Crimson Circle
Novel
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Wanted at Headquarters
Story
Although she is the mastermind of a gang of crooks, Kate Westhanger's talents are unknown to those outside her circle, thus enabling her to infiltrate George Flanbaugh's gold syndicate. While ostensibly working for Flanbaugh, Kate actually is compiling information on a large gold shipment. One day, while working, Kate meets young criminologist Michael Pretherson, and although finding herself attracted to the sleuth, she laughs at his detective work and challenges him to stop her.