Locker Sixty-Nine

Locker Sixty-Nine
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Norman Harrison
Written by	Richard Harris
Based on	story by Edgar Wallace
Produced by	Jack Greenwood
Starring	Eddie Byrne Paul Daneman Walter Brown Penelope Horner Edward Underdown
Cinematography	Bert Mason
Edited by	Gordon Hales
Music by	Bernard Ebbinghouse
Production company	Merton Park Studios
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (U.K.)
Release date	1962 (1962)
Running time	56 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Locker Sixty-Nine (also known as Locker 69) is a 1962 British film directed by Norman Harrison and starring Eddie Byrne and Paul Daneman. ^{[1] [2] [3]} It was written by Richard Harris based on a story by Edgar Wallace. It was an episode of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series.

Cast

• Eddie Byrne as Simon York
• Paul Daneman as Frank Griffiths
• Walter Brown as Craig
• Penelope Horner as Julie Denver
• Edward Underdown as Bennett Sanders
• Clarissa Stolz as Eva Terila
• John Carson as Miguel Terila
• John Glyn-Jones as Inspector Roon
• Edwin Richfield as Peters
• Alfred Burke as Davison
• Philip Latham as Dr. Trent
• Leonard Sachs as Spencer
• Larry Burns as doorkeeper
• Kenneth Thornett as constable (as Keneth Thornett)
• Norma Parnell as Maggie
• Valerie Van Ost as showgirl (uncredited)

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The original story from which this script was taken is not one of Edgar Wallace's better known efforts, but it is a good example of the type of mystery writing at which he excelled, even if the 'gimmick' surprise is not, in fact, surprising. The plot depends stirely on the intricacies of its development, but all is smoothly done." ^[4]

Kine Weekly wrote: "The entire cast thoroughly enters into the spirit of the extravagant malarky, and the director, too, sees that never a trick is missed ... The picture has both ingenuity and invention and contains all the tension and excitement of popular 'murder' mystery without producing the corpse. Eddie Byrne does an expert job as newshound Simon; Edward Underdown is a smooth Bennett: and Penelope Horner makes a glamorous and disarming Julie." ^[5]

References

1. "Locker Sixty-Nine". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
2. "Locker Sixty Nine (1962)". Radio Times.
3. "Rewind @ www.dvdcompare.net – Locker Sixty Nine AKA Locker 69 (1962)". www.dvdcompare.net.
4. "Locker Sixty-Nine". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 30 (348): 23. 1 January 1963. ProQuest   1305824228.
5. "Locker Sixty-Nine". Kine Weekly . 542 (2881): 15. 20 December 1962.

External links

• Locker Sixty Nine at BBFC
• Locker Sixty Nine at BFI
• Locker Sixty Nine at IMDb