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Director
  
Clive Donner

Music director
  
Charles Blackwell

Country
  
United Kingdom

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama, Mystery

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The Sinister Man movie poster

Release date
  
1961

Writer
  
Robert Stewart, Edgar Wallace (novel)

Cast
  
John Bentley
,
Patrick Allen
,
Jacqueline Ellis
,
Wilfrid Brambell

Genres
  
Mystery, Drama, Crime Fiction

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The Sinister Man is a 1961 British drama film directed by Clive Donner and starring Patrick Allen, Gerald Anderson and Edward Atienza. 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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Plot

The body of an Oxford professor is found floating in the river Thames. He had previously been studying an archeological artefact known as the Kytang Wafers, and this is now missing. Scotland Yard investigates.

Cast

  • Patrick Allen as Dr. Nelson Pollard
  • Gerald Anderson as Major Paul Amery
  • Edward Atienza as Clerk
  • John Bentley as Superintendent Wills
  • Wilfrid Brambell as Lock keeper
  • Yvonne Buckingham as Miss Russell
  • Michael Deacon as Angus
  • Jacqueline Ellis as Elsa Marlowe
  • Keith Faulkner as Lock keeper's assistant
  • William Gaunt as Mitch Hallam
  • John Glyn-Jones as Dr. Maurice Tarn
  • Peter Hager as Warden
  • John Horsley as Pathologist
  • Burt Kwouk as Captain Feng
  • Arnold Lee as Soyok
  • Robert Lee as Nam Lee
  • Brian McDermott as Detective Sergeant Stillman
  • Don McKillop as Reporter
  • Critical reception

    MemorableTV.com described the film as "definitely one of the great Edgar Wallace entries with a fab cast that includes a pre-Steptoe Wilfred Brambell, Patrick Allen, William Gaunt and Burt Kwouk. John Bentley who took the lead as Superintendent Willis was a popular actor in the late fifties and early sixties but is all but forgotten these days."

    References

    The Sinister Man Wikipedia
    The Sinister Man IMDb The Sinister Man themoviedb.org