Murder at Site 3 | |
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Directed by | Francis Searle |
Written by | Paddy Manning O'Brine |
Based on | Crime Is My Business by W Howard Baker (as Peter Saxon) |
Produced by | Charles Leeds, Francis Searle |
Starring | Geoffrey Toone, Barbara Shelley |
Cinematography | Bert Mason |
Music by | Don Banks |
Production company | Francis Searle Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Murder at Site 3 (also known as Murder at Site Three) is a 1958 British film directed by Francis Searle and starring Barbara Shelley, Geoffrey Toone and John Warwick. [1] [2] featuring the character of Sexton Blake. [1] It was written by Paddy Manning O'Brine, based on the 1958 novel Crime is My Business by W Howard Baker (as Peter Saxon), and produced at Bray Studios by Francis Searle's own production company.
Sexton Blake tracks down a gang who have stolen secrets from a rocket site.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Blake, his secretary and his assistant Tinker are attractively characterised in a modest thriller suffering less from its many improbabilities than a meandering, over-deliberate and for the most part tedious narrative.:" [3]
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