Edgar Wallace Mysteries(1959)

series - first aired/released 1959-03-01 - audience 7.5

Mystery, Drama

Directed by Alan Bridges, Charles Jarrott, Geoffrey Nethercott, Herbert Wise, John Nelson-Burton, Peter Duffell

The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a British second-feature film series, produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 46 films in the series, made between 1960 and 1965. The films were loose adaptations of Edgar Wallace's books and stories. Very few used his original titles, and there was no attempt to set them in the period in which Wallace wrote, probably to obviate the need for elaborate costumes and sets. A 1962 article in Scene magazine quotes £22,000 as the budget for an episode then in production.