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The Malpas Mystery
Directed bySidney Hayers
Written byPaul Tabori
Gordon Wellesley
Based onnovel The Face in the Night by Edgar Wallace
Produced byJulian Wintle
Leslie Parkyn
StarringMaureen Swanson
Allan Cuthbertson
Geoffrey Keen
CinematographyMichael Reed
Edited byTristam Cones
Music byElisabeth Lutyens
Production
companies
Independent Artists
Langton Productions
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
  • October 1960 (1960-10) (UK)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Malpas Mystery is a 1960 British second feature ('B')[1] crime film, directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Maureen Swanson and Allan Cuthbertson.[2] The screenplay was by Paul Tabori and Gordon Wellesley, based on the 1924 Edgar Wallace novel The Face in the Night.

Although originally made by Independent Artists at Beaconsfield studios, it was included in the Merton Park series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries.[3][4] It went on general release on the ABC Cinemas circuit on 17 September 1961 supporting Raising the Wind (1961).

  1. ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ^ "The Malpas Mystery". British Film Institute Collection Seach. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  3. ^ "The Edgar Wallace Mysteries Volume 1". www.dvdbeaver.com.
  4. ^ "The Malpas Mystery (1961)". BFI. Archived from the original on 20 September 2018.

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