The Claydon Treasure Mystery

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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Directed by Manning Haynes
Written by Edward Dryhurst
Based onnovel The Shakespeare Murders by Neil Gordon [1]
Produced byJohn Findlay
Starring
Cinematography Stanley Grant
Edited by Fergus McDonell
Production
company
Fox-British Pictures
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Company (UK)
Release date
  • 5 September 1938 (1938-09-05)(UK)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

The Claydon Treasure Mystery is a 1938 British crime drama film directed by H. Manning Haynes and starring John Stuart, Garry Marsh and Evelyn Ankers. [2] Murder at a large old manor house attracts the attentions of a mystery writer. It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox. [3]

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Plot

Lady Caroline (Annie Esmond) invites engineer and part-time crime writer Peter Kerrigan (John Stuart) to Marsh Manor to solve a murder. Is the mysterious death of a librarian connected with the Claydon treasure, reputedly hidden on the estate a century earlier?

Cast

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References

  1. Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   9783110951943 via Google Books.
  2. "The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938)". Archived from the original on March 22, 2017.
  3. Wood p.94

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