The Clue of the New Pin | |
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Directed by | Allan Davis |
Written by | Philip Mackie |
Based on | a novel by Edgar Wallace |
Produced by | Jack Greenwood |
Starring | Paul Daneman Bernard Archard James Villiers |
Cinematography | Bert Mason |
Edited by | Anne Barker |
Music by | Ron Goodwin (uncredited) |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK) |
Release date | 1961 |
Running time | 58 mins |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Clue of the New Pin (1961) is a British crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Paul Daneman, Bernard Archard and James Villiers. [1] It was one of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries, British second-features, produced at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s.
This film is an adaptation of the 1923 novel The Clue of the New Pin by Edgar Wallace, which was also made into a film in 1929.
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TV Guide called it "slightly better than most of the 47 Edgar Wallace second features that producer Greenwood put out between 1960 and 1963." [2]
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