Ricochet (1963 film)

Ricochet
Directed by	John Llewellyn Moxey
Written by	Edgar Wallace (novel) Roger Marshall
Produced by	Jack Greenwood
Starring	Maxine Audley Richard Leech Alex Scott
Cinematography	James Wilson
Edited by	Derek Holding
Music by	Bernard Ebbinghouse
Production company	Merton Park Studios
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated
Release date	March 1963 (1963-03)
Running time	64 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Ricochet is a 1963 British crime film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Maxine Audley, Richard Leech and Alex Scott. ^{[1] [2]} Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it was written by Roger Marshall based on the 1922 Wallace novel The Angel of Terror . ^{[3] [4]}

Cast

• Maxine Audley as Yvonne Phipps
• Richard Leech as Alan Phipps
• Alex Scott as John Brodie
• Dudley Foster as Peter Dexter
• Patrick Magee as Insp. Cummings
• Frederick Piper as Siddall
• June Murphy as Judy
• Virginia Wetherell as Brenda
• Alec Bregonzi as Max
• Keith Smith as Porter
• Peter Torquill as Sgt. Walters
• Nancy Nevinson as Elsie Siddall
• William Dysart as first skater
• Barbara Roscoe as pretty girl skater
• Anne Godley as wardress
• Maris Tant as girl skater
• Marian Horton as waitress

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Edgar Wallace's worldly, thinly ingenious story is here transposed to a contemporary suburban setting, rather effectively photographed under snow, and unimaginatively acted in the expressionless whisky-swilling convention of British second features. All the characters are pretty repulsive, and are allotted an appropriately nasty fate. Disbelief tends to dispel suspense, and the end is altogether too expected. The sound, though important to the plot, is rather over-recorded." ^[5]

Kine Weekly wrote: "There is an expertise about the production that keeps the attention from start to finish. There are no loose ends to the plot and no untidy red herrings. The director has used some quite imaginative camera angles for atmospheric effect, but never lets them intrude. The direction, in short, is direct. Maxine Audley and Richard Leech are credible as the married protagonists and character sketches are filled in by Alex Scott, Dudley Foster, Patrick Magee and other excellent supporting artists." ^[6]

References

1. "Ricochet". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
2. "Ricochet (1963)". BFI. Archived from the original on 31 October 2019.
3. Goble p.486
4. "The Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Ricochet (1963)". Radio Times.
5. "Ricochet". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 30 (348): 120. 1 January 1963. ProQuest   1305823102.
6. "Ricochet". Kine Weekly . 554 (2910): 9. 11 July 1963. ProQuest   3127067333.

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• Ricochet at IMDb