Edgar Wallace
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 70 (Writer)
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A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla. (imdb)
Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims. (imdb)
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning. (imdb)
A teacher who is having an affair with one of his students takes her out on a boat. They see a knife killing on shore. Other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, and the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them. (imdb)
A murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber.
A series of strange deaths takes place in London. All are accidents but the victims are single men with no family and they all have a link to a life insurance company run by the mysterious Dr. Orloff. (imdb)
A woman arrives at a lonely mansion and finds herself mixed up with a lunatic who has built his own torture chamber, which is already crowded with victims - and he plans to make her his next one. (imdb)
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again. (imdb)
British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930's rules his area strictly but justly, and struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief. (imdb)
Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is reflected by the frog icons painfully tatooed onto the forearms of his henchmen. The trail leads to the country manor of an enigmatic, steely-eyed nabob, whose repressed son has eyes for the artistes at the Lolita cabaret, and whose lovely daughter captures the fancy of both the American playboy and the villain himself. (imdb)
After master criminal Clay Shelton is executed by the hangman of London, his 'ghost' returns from the dead and starts murdering those responsible for his conviction. It's up to Chief Inspector Long of Scotland Yard to solve the mystery and end the serial killings, not to mention win the hand of fetching secretary Nora Duncan. (imdb)
A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia. (imdb)
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again... (imdb)
A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur. (imdb)
Wealthy, heavily insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend." (imdb)
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scuba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway. Inspector Wade of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case, and he begins to suspect that the Shark is tied in with a smuggling ring the authorities believe is run out of a dive on the Thames waterfront called The Mekka. (imdb)
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf. The estate's executor, a lawyer, sets out to find the killer before everyone--including himself--is murdered. (imdb)
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance. (imdb)
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas. (imdb)
Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle. (imdb)
A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring. (imdb)
Scotland Yard goes after a gang that drowns its victims for their insurance money. (imdb)
The plot centres on John Alexander, a successful business man whose wife just happens to be a lesbian. She is, unfortunately, killed in a car crash towards the start of the film and John then encounters Christine; a sexy and uninhibited blonde seductress who seems to have a keen interest in him. One thing leads to another, and John ends up seeing a blue movie starring Christine and, apparently, his wife! The mystery then builds as John comes to believe that his wife is still alive. (imdb)
The Story of Edith Cavell, who was shot early in WW1 for sheltering British soldiers while working as a nurse in Brussells. (imdb)
A master of disguise commits a series of daring crimes. Nobody knows what he looks like. He even masquerades as a doctor and kills his own partner whilst under police protection because he was about to betray him. (imdb)
Ronald Quayle escapes from prison. He was sent there for murdering his father, based on the testimony of his stepmother, Caroline. An explosion disfigures him, but plastic surgery gives him an opportunity to return to England and investigate his father's murder under a new identity. As Robert Crockett he romances his stepmother, ultimately trapping her by creating the appearance of a double-cross among her accomplices, now guests at her house. (imdb)
Joe Valerie stashed a million dollars in gold from a robbery 15 years earlier. Now that he lay dying a painful death, he trades the location of the money to Dr. Cornelius for a shot to end his suffering. When Mrs. Marble reads about the death of Joe, she wants to spend the money, but the ghost of Joe causes her to fall down the stairs ending her life. When the police show up, they are not sure if it is murder of not, so they enlist Dr. Cornelius and clairvoyant Patricia to help solve the case. (imdb)
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family. (imdb)
Police Captain Gordon and Sergeant Elk set out to put an end to the activities of a criminal mastermind who calls himself The Frog. They encounter blackmail, murder, arson and robbery along the way, mixed in with cabaret dancers, eccentric Americans, American gangsters and beautiful girls whose fathers seem to have strange occupations. (imdb)
A mysterious fence of stolen gems is hated both by Scotland Yard and the underworld. The first because he is elusive and the second because he betrays those who will not sell to him at his own price. Inspector Barrabal, once one of the Yard's smartest and most-respected men, but now a disgraced drunk, is given a chance to make a comeback by rounding up The Squeaker. (imdb)
A gangster tries to fix things so that he can marry a rich society woman. (imdb)
A mysterious criminal mastermind plots a spectacular gold robbery, then after the robbery is completed he makes sure his gang is caught by the police, keeps the gold and disappears. After his former accomplices are released from prison, they go searching for their former boss to take their revenge and get their share of the loot. (imdb)
The former partner of a master criminal turns himself in to Scotland Yard. The criminal, a master of disguise, plots to kill his partner, but must first get through the wall of security Scotland Yard has thrown around him. (imdb)
A suspense thriller with virtually the entire cast under suspicion of murder. In this, the third of at least 4 film versions of the Edgar Wallace story, John Longden plays the police inspector for the second time. The inspector and a police surgeon team up to find the killer who has just announced his (or her) intention to kill a lawyer. (imdb)
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots. (imdb)
"Mark's Priory". the family seat of the Lebanons, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane, secretary and niece of Lady Lebanon. The strange behavior of two sinister butlers, Gilder and Brooks, adds greatly to her fear and her sole consolation lies in the sympathy extended her by young Lord William "Willie" Lebanon. A young architect, Richard Ferraby, arrives from London to inspect the ancient home in regards to renovations, and he and Isla are immediately attracted to each other. (imdb)
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him. (imdb)
A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard. (imdb)
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons. (imdb)
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal. (imdb)
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden. (imdb)
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river. (imdb)
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault. (imdb)
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. (imdb)
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be. (imdb)
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back! (imdb)
The fugitive of a forensic mental institution enters a country house right after the owner changed his last will and a series of mysterious murders starts. (imdb)
Prolific Italian filmmaker Duccio Tessari (La Morte Risale a Ieri Sera) returned to the giallo field with this first-rate detective thriller which begins with a French co-ed (Carole Andre) repeatedly stabbed in a park during a thunderstorm. The suspicion falls on sportscaster Alessandro Marchi (Giancarlo Sbargia). (Robert Firsching on AMG)
In a high stakes game of double-cross and murder, a sunken ship full of gold is worth killing for! (HKFlix)
A con artist who fleeces wealthy widows falls for his latest mark. (TCM.com)
After the success of "Der Hexer", this sequel was shot 9 months later by the same director with mostly the same cast - unfortunately Joachim Fuchsberger did not return. Obviously, the sequel had another problem from the start: the first movie had revealed the secret identity of the "Hexer" in the end, so the possibility for a similar surprise was gone. Nevertheless, a solid story was put on celluloid here which makes it an average contribution to the Edgar Wallace series at least... (imdb)
In this murder mystery, Scotland Yard looks into a series of murders that have one thing in common: each of the victims has a strange circular mark upon his neck. (allmovie.com)
The Green Archer is the tale of a masked avenger who kills his victims with bow and arrow. Gert Frobe is the detective assigned to identify the elusive Green Archer and stem his activities. (allmovie.com)
Based on a novel by Edgar Wallace about Scotland Yard and their hunt for murderer....
isinherited by wealthy dad amateur jockey Bill goes to work incognito at racing stables of Stella Barrington, who has inherited father's racing stables but stable is in trouble cos she spends on retaining dad's slowcoaches. Bill lands job of head stable lad; he could be the man to raise cash via a betting coup on stable rogue (tamed by Bill) Flying Fifty-Five. Confusion arises when he's mistakenly reported as murdered. Also he's being blackmailed for passing dud cheque.
Ramon (Francis DeWolff) is the Armenian merchant who lives in his mansion outside of London. He has augmented his income over the years by blackmailing his clients. Fearful of retribution, he installs a room in his mansion that is supposedly impenetrable, complete with a hotline to Scotland Yard in the event of a break-in. One by one, Ramon's friends and associates are murdered, as the trail of blood oozes closer to his door. (allmovie)
Following the death of an Oxford researcher, important archaeological artifacts that he had been working with begin to disappear.
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.' (imdb)
A woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims. (imdb)
A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewelry shop where she works.
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex's disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder.
A young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister withdrew from the bank the day before her death? (imdb)
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed, by various parties, to be investigating their indiscretions.
Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
A cheating wife and her lover conspire to swindle her wealthy husband out of valuable property in Canada. But soon come to believe the man not only is on to them, but under another name committed several murders twenty years earlier. Though the husband maintains a cheerful, oblivious demeanour, anxiety builds in the wayward couple as mysterious accidents and coincidences convince them they are marked for death.
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia. (imdb)
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers