Clue of the Twisted Candle

Clue of the Twisted Candle is a 1960 British crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Bernard Lee, David Knight and Francis De Wolff. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1918 novel The Clue of the Twisted Candle.[1]

Clue of the Twisted Candle
Directed byAllan Davis
Produced byJack Greenwood
Jim O'Connolly
Written byPhilip Mackie
Based onThe Clue of the Twisted Candle
by Edgar Wallace
StarringBernard Lee
David Knight
Francis De Wolff
Music byFrancis Chagrin
CinematographyBrian Rhodes
Edited byBernard Gribble
Production
company
Merton Park Studios
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated
Release date
September 1960
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Cast

  • Bernard Lee as Superintendent Meredith
  • David Knight as Lexman
  • Francis De Wolff as Ramon Karadis
  • Colette Wilde as Grace
  • Christine Shaw as Linda Buckland
  • Stanley Morgan as Sergeant Anson
  • A.J. Brown as Commissioner of Police
  • Richard Caldicot as Fisher
  • Edmond Bennett as Manservant
  • Simon Lack as Jock
  • Anthony Baird as Sergeant Butterfield
  • Gladys Henson as Landlady
  • Alfred Maron as Finch
  • Richard Vernon as Viney
  • Harry Locke as Amis
  • Roy Purcell as Brennan
  • Kenneth Fortescue as Secretary, C.I.D.
  • Hazel Hughes as Miss Cunningham
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References

  1. Goble p.486

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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