The Clue of the New Pin (1961 film)
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Story by Edgar Wallace Duration Language English | Director Allan Davis Genre Crime Fiction Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1961 Based on a novel by Edgar Wallace Writer Philip Mackie, Edgar Wallace Cast Bernard Archard , Paul Daneman , James Villiers Similar movies The Squeaker (1963) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. It was one of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries, British second-features, produced at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s.
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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.
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
TV Guide called it "slightly better than most of the 47 Edgar Wallace second features that producer Greenwood put out between 1960 and 1963."
References
The Clue of the New Pin (1961 film) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
The Clue of the New Pin (1961 film) IMDb