The Fourth Square

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The Fourth Square
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Directed by Allan Davis
Written by James Eastwood
Based on Four Square Jane
by Edgar Wallace
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Gerald Moss
Edited by Derek Holding
Music by James Stevens
Production
company
Merton Park Studios
Distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated
Release date
  • June 1961 (1961-06)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

The Fourth Square is a 1961 British second feature [1] crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry and Delphi Lawrence. [2] The screenplay was by James Eastwood, based on the 1929 Edgar Wallace novel Four Square Jane. [3] 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

Nina Stewart and her wealthy husband return to their apartment to find the police waiting for them. Their maid has been found dead, and there are signs the safe has been cracked. Nina checks the safe and reports nothing has been stolen. She goes to see her solicitor Bill Lawrence, and admits that she lied: an emerald ring given to her by millionaire playboy Tom Alvarez, with whom she is having an affair, was stolen from the safe. She says that Henry Adams, her husband's public relations officer, stole it out of jealousy, and asks Lawrence to find it. The police suspect Adams, but he is murdered. Lawrence discovers that Alvarez's estranged wife Josette is the criminal.

Cast

Production

The film's sets were designed by the art director Peter Mullins.

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Briskly implausible Edgar Wallace thriller, sufficiently suspenseful to hold the interest; acting and direction, too, are quite slick considering the unassuming level of this series." [4]

References

  1. ↑ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 327. ISBN   978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ↑ "The Fourth Square". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  3. ↑ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 486.
  4. ↑ "The Fourth Square". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 28 (324): 114. 1 January 1961. ProQuest   1305828245.
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