Ricochet (1963 film)

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Ricochet
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Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Written by
Produced by Jack Greenwood
Starring
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
CountryUnited 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 is based on the 1922 novel The Angel of Terror . [3] [4]

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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]

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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 via ProQuest.

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