The Clue of the New Pin (1961 film)

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The Clue of the New Pin
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Directed byAllan Davis
Written by Philip Mackie
Based onthe novel by Edgar Wallace
Produced byJack Greenwood
Starring Paul Daneman
Bernard Archard
James Villiers
CinematographyBert Mason
Edited byAnne Barker
Music by Ron Goodwin (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
  • 1961 (1961)
Running time
58 mins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Clue of the New Pin is a 1961 British second feature ('B') [1] crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Paul Daneman, Bernard Archard and James Villiers. [2] [3] The screenplay was by Philip Mackie, based on the 1923 Edgar Wallace novel of the same title which was previously filmed in 1929. It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from 1960 to 1965.

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Plot

TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.

Partial cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A listless attempt is made to bring this old-fashioned Edgar Wallace thriller up-to-date by introducing a television announcer, contemporary furniture and nylon thread. Played in period, the heavy-handed melodrama might have seemed more convincing. As it is, with its Chinese manservant, vaulted treasure and fortune made "out East" (to say nothing of the footling trick with key and pin on which the plot revolves), it is merely an unlikely oddity among second feature thrillers." [4]

TV Guide called it "slightly better than most of the 47 Edgar Wallace second features that producer Greenwood put out between 1960 and 1963." [5]

References

  1. ↑ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 236. ISBN   978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ↑ "The Clue of the New Pin". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  3. ↑ "BFI Database entry". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009.
  4. ↑ "The Clue of the New Pin". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 28 (324): 46. 1 January 1961. ProQuest   1305820199.
  5. ↑ "The Clue Of The New Pin". TV Guide. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
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