Author | Edgar Wallace |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publication date | 1916 |
Media type |
A Debt Discharged is a 1916 thriller novel by Edgar Wallace. An American investigator goes in pursuit of a gang forging money on a large scale.
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English writer.
In 1961 it was turned into the film Man Detained , directed by Robert Tronson as part of a long-running series of Wallace films made at Merton Park Studios. [1]
Man Detained is a 1961 British crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale and Paul Stassino. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is loosely based on the 1916 novel A Debt Discharged by Edgar Wallace.
Robert Tronson was an English film and television director, born in Chilmark, Wiltshire. Educated at Churcher's College in Hampshire, followed by the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, he served with the Royal Navy from 1941. After leaving the service at the end of the Second World War he determined to become a writer, but soon joined the BBC, where he produced children's television programmes. In 1955 he joined Associated-Rediffusion, and by the end of the decade he was working on television drama serials. From the 1960s onwards he worked as a freelance director in a career spanning almost 50 years. His final television credits were for directing five episodes of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates for the BBC, between 1996 and 1998.
Merton Park Studios was a British film production studio located at Long Lodge, 269 Kingston Road in South Wimbledon, London. In the 1940s, it was owned by Piprodia Entertainment, Nikhanj Films and Film Producers Guild.
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