Merton Park Noir
British second features made by Anglo Amalgamated at Merton Park . Including the Edgar Wallace and Edgar Lustgarten series .
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- DirectorMichael McCarthyStarsSydney TaflerRonald HowardKatharine BlakePretending to be rare stamp dealer, a man devotedly supports wife and musically talented younger brother as a professional hit-man.
- DirectorMichael McCarthyStarsSydney TaflerBarbara MurrayPatricia OwensLarry Gordon, well-known crime writer, is on a train journey when a scream is heard. Upon investigation, the guard had been mugged and a man murdered. Another man is arrested but the full story is yet to be discovered.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsDermot WalshSydney TaflerMary GermaineIn England, two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the dead body of a man floating in the River Thames. They call the local police who later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland. The police have to find his murderer, as well as the missing diamonds he was carrying.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsSydney TaflerSusan ShawMelissa StriblingBenny steals Caroline's purse and finds a letter revealing her affair with married surgeon Mannering. Benny blackmails them, leading to murder.
- DirectorMichael McCarthyStarsDonald HoustonNatasha ParryPatricia Owens1952. Drama. Directed by Michael McCarthy. Starring Natasha Parry & Donald Houston. In a spooky mansion, one of three sinister spinsters tries to poison her nephew's wife to steal a large inheritance.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsDermot WalshHazel CourtHugh BurdenA luxury ship is haunted by the ghosts of a crew that had disappeared off the ship years before.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsEdgar LustgartenVictor PlattHilda BarryDuring the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
- DirectorRichard VernonStarsCesar RomeroKay KendallEdward UnderdownSmall-time Soho hustler gets caught up in the murder of an ex-girl friend, evades the police and finally helps them to corner the real murderer.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsEdgar LustgartenTristan RawsonEvelyn MooreThrough a mother's terrible dream, her son's body is discovered in France and his killer is arrested in England.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsDermot WalshHazel CourtHermione BaddeleyAn auditor comes into possession of an envelope containing prints and drawings which the British government is anxious to obtain and also a great many other people, all of whom try to get them from him by any means. He escapes many of the traps set for him by the villains, but is finally captured and is tied to an operating table where the gang leader is set to do some scalpel work on him.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsEdgar LustgartenGerald CaseJack LambertA Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of an old recluse.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierDerek AylwardScotland Yard investigates a murder where the prime suspect is a female cat burglar.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsEdgar LustgartenAlexander GaugeEdgar DriverJust prior to World War II, a salesman murders a drunken man who just won a football pool. Through dogged investigation and the assistance of a bank manager, Scotland Yard arrests the killer.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierVincent BallA blind man who is a "nose witness" to a murder, is asked to select the killer from a line-up based on his acute sense of smell.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenColin TapleyTerry YorkeScotland Yard detectives race to find a crippled man, the only witness to crime, who has mysteriously disappeared.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsDirk BogardeAlexis SmithAlexander KnoxAfter a convict breaks in a psychotherapist's home, he agrees to rehabilitation rather than arrest but the therapist's wife becomes infatuated with him.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenKenneth HenryFrank ForsythA man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears.
- DirectorPaul DicksonStarsEdgar LustgartenGordon BellEdward ForsythA Scotland Yard detective investigates the connection between a man who suffers from amnesia, a blackmailer and murder.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsWilliam LundiganNaomi ChanceVincent BallA yacht in the English channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?
- DirectorKen HughesStarsEdgar LustgartenKenneth HenryKen MarshallA murderer attempts to escape justice by shipping his victim's body to Tokyo in a trunk.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsPatrick BarrElizabeth AllanMaxwell ReedA doctor is taken hostage by a drug smuggler whom she has diagnosed as psychotic. Her estranged husband has to find her before the smuggling gang find him and kill them both.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsEdgar LustgartenGerald CaseShay GormanScotland Yard detectives investigate a diamond robbery and track the gems to a female criminal who specializes in fencing stolen gems.
- DirectorPaul DicksonStarsEdgar LustgartenFrank LeightonRobin WentworthScotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman, with the investigation focusing on her landlady's son.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsRichard ConteRona AndersonRussell NapierA US agent protects a defecting Russian scientist in London as scientists are murdered. The agent finds the killers' hideout, is captured with a policeman's niece, escapes, and stops the killings.
- DirectorPaul DicksonStarsEdgar LustgartenRobert ChurchillRobert RaglanA Scotland Yard ballistics expert is called into identify a murderer through a scientific analysis of the bullet that killed a man.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsGene NelsonFaith DomergueJoseph TomeltyA scientist is found floating with bullet and a radiation halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his double from destroying his experiments.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsEdgar LustgartenTravers HumphreysJill BennettA Scotland Yard detective investigates the murder of a man who the lover of a blind man's wife.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsGene NelsonMona FreemanJohn BentleyA man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsSydney ChaplinAudrey DaltonJefferson CliffordA falling-out between thieves over the proceeds of a stickup results in several killings and a priest being marked for murder because of a confession he heard from one of the gang members.
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsRobert BeattyTerry MooreWilliam SylvesterA woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsJohn SlaterAlfred MarksGarry MarshA truck driver is accused of the murder of a hitch hiker.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenCyril ChamberlainVernon GreevesA Scotland Yard detective investigates the death of a man who died on an amusement park ride
- DirectorJoseph LoseyAlec C. SnowdenStarsRichard BasehartMary MurphyConstance CummingsA married movie studio executive's life starts to unravel when he is stalked by a seductively beautiful woman he claims he does not know.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenHugh MoxeyGordon BoydScotland Yard detectives investigate an insurance scam, where a "drowned" man proves to have been dead before he was thrown in the water.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierArthur GomezWhen Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a man in the London airport, the trail leads to Lisbon and a international currency smuggling gang.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierEdward CastA spy from behind the Iron Curtain changes identities with an assassin.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierGordon BoydScotland Yard investigates a marriage brokerage service where the clients have a high mortality rate.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsZachary ScottPeggie CastleMervyn JohnsA reformed forger runs into an acquaintance from his past, now an escaped murderer, who blackmails him into resuming his criminal career.
- DirectorKenneth HumeStarsEdgar LustgartenBallard BerkeleyDuncan McIntyreWhile investigating an attempted homicide, a Scotland Yard detective solves a murder that occurred 27 years earlier.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenRonald AdamBernard FoxScotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsRoland CulverPatricia RocPaul CarpenterAfter a test pilot is injured in a plane crash, his fiancée takes him to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist is unhappily married and has a crush on the fiancée, and attempts to hypnotize the pilot into murdering his wife.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierVernon GreevesA Scotland Yard detective investigates the murder of an artist who dabbled in blackmail.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsZachary ScottFaith DomerguePeter IllingA woman's husband has been convicted of murder. Knowing he is innocent, she sets out to find the real killer.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierJulian StrangeScotland Yard detectives investigate the suspicious death of a rocket scientist and discover the man was being blackmailed by his secretary, who intern was threatened by foreign agents.
- DirectorDavid PaltenghiStarsEdgar LustgartenJohn WarwickGordon BoydWhen a woman is found drowned under suspicious circumstances, Scotland Yard detectives investigate a lawyer for possible insurance fraud.
- DirectorJohn KnightStarsEdgar LustgartenHy HazellDennis CastleScotland Yard detectives pursue a murderous gang of robbers who held up a mail truck, killing the driver in the process.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierJulian StrangeScotland Yard detectives investigate the mysterious death of a Hungarian who had a knife-throwing act.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsLee PattersonPaula ByrneColin GordonAttempting to reconstruct a criminal case, a radio presenter seeks the whereabouts of a robber who has recently finished a prison sentence, leading him into danger.
- DirectorAlfred ShaughnessyStarsBarbara ShelleyRobert AyresKay CallardLeonora Johnson is a woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told she will inherit money, but also that there is a family curse: being possessed by the spirit of a leopard in spite of her disbelieving psychiatrist Dr. Brian Marlowe.
- DirectorCompton BennettStarsLee PattersonKay CallardAlan GiffordRonnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on 'The Flying Scotsman' passenger train. The train is carrying withdrawn bank notes from Scotland to London to be destroyed.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsLex BarkerCarole MathewsLisa GastoniA man, awakening with no memory, is told he is an heir to millions, but he suspects he is an heir to trouble instead.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenJohn WarwickTim TurnerA Scotland Yard detective in pursuit of payroll thieves suspects that the criminals are using a dead man's fingerprints to throw him off the trail.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsJoan RiceSheldon LawrenceDorothy BrewsterThe Long Knife is a 1958 British crime film concerning a young nurse who becomes drawn into criminal activities. Directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Joan Rice, Sheldon Lawrence and Victor Brooks.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenJohn WarwickDavid LodgeA Scotland Yard detective investigates the murder of vacationers staying in caravans.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierIvan CraigScotland Yard detectives investigate the death of a prosperous wine merchant.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsLee PattersonRona AndersonJohn Le MesurierWhen a nightclub is burned to the ground, a detective is assigned by an insurance company to find the cause. The detective suspects the club owner of torching the place, but meets the club owner's niece, who helps the detective uncover a mob protection scheme that's responsible.
- DirectorGeoffrey MullerStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierJohn StoneScotland Yard detectives pursue a killer arsonist. Their only clue is a glass eye that was left at the scene of the crime.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsPeter ReynoldsLisa GastoniPeter ElliottBecause she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
- DirectorGeoffrey MullerStarsDermot WalshGreta GyntRussell NapierA young boy, whose father is in prison for the same crime he just witnessed, is used by the police as a decoy to capture the culprits in return for the release of his dad.
- DirectorGeoffrey MullerStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierGordon BoydScotland Yard detectives pursue the murderers of a Hungarian girl found dead on an amusement park ride. Their inquiries lead them to a rooming house full of shoplifters.
- DirectorPeter MaxwellStarsConrad PhillipsJill IrelandWilliam HartnellTwo reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsLyndon BrookJane HyltonJill BrowneDouglas Baines, a wartime army deserter, is lying low in a shabby flat with his girlfriend Daisy and the couple's small son, Jiffy. Returning home with a toy for Jiffy's second birthday, he learns that Daisy has had the boy adopted. When she refuses to tell him where the boy is, he strangles Daisy and goes on the run.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsRichard ToddBernard LeeMichael WildingIn 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsLee PattersonBarbara ShelleyJane HyltonAn airline pilot, falsely accused of wife-murder, sets out to find who really did it.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsLee PattersonConrad PhillipsEwen SolonServing a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems, his wife is about to go into labor with their first baby.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsWilliam LucasAndrew FauldsColette Wilde
- 1959–196558m7.0 (72)TV EpisodeDirectorAllan DavisStarsPaul DanemanJames VilliersKatherine WoodvilleAfter a visit from a mysterious stranger from his past, enigmatic millionaire John Trasmore is found dead - shot at close range locked in his own strongroom, with the only key on a table in the middle of the room.
- DirectorAllan DavisStarsBernard LeeDavid KnightFrancis De WolffAn unscrupulous businessman frames a rival for murder, then is himself found murdered in a locked room.
- DirectorGerard BryantStarsEdgar LustgartenGeoffrey KeenEdward CastScotland Yard detectives investigate a gang of bank robbers who steal common sedans and convert them into race cars, thus allowing themselves to elude pursuing police cars.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsPatrick BarrHoward PaysTerence KnappWhen to women are brutally murdered, the local townsfolk quickly assume a strangely behaving young man is the culprit, but a policeman thinks otherwise.
- DirectorGeoffrey MullerStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierNorman JohnsScotland Yard investigates a murder committed in the London Underground
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsStanley BakerSam WanamakerGrégoire AslanIn the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money.
- 1959–196558m5.9 (80)TV EpisodeDirectorMontgomery TullyStarsHazel CourtJohn CrawfordLisa DanielyA valuable diamond is purchased by a man-about-town who then disappears and his cheque bounces. His solicitor hires a private investigator who seeks to track down the man and his female companion but the fugitive turns up dead.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsTony WrightPatricia DaintonSandra DorneA novelist and his sexy lover plot to kill the novelist's wife so he can inherit her fortune including her house that happens to be haunted.
- 1959–196558m6.4 (90)TV EpisodeDirectorClive DonnerStarsHarry H. CorbettJohn CairneyJohn Van EyssenWhen a convict escapes from prison, to be re-united with his girlfriend and his stolen £20,000 he left with her for safe keeping, he is in for a series of surprises and then a trip to the seaside and a police chase follows.
- 1959–19651h 9m6.3 (64)TV EpisodeDirectorSidney HayersStarsMaureen SwansonAllan CuthbertsonGeoffrey KeenWhen Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she asks stepsister Dora for shelter. Dora takes Audrey to a party hosted hosted by Lacey, her boyfriend. Lacey complains about his neighbor, the mysterious Mr. Malpas, who makes strange noises all night and is never seen. Next day, Audrey gets a job offer from Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.
- DirectorGordon HalesStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierHoward PaysPolice investigating a routine pedestrian fatality call in Scotland Yard when they make a surprising discovery.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira ShearerA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
- DirectorTerry BishopStarsZena WalkerRobert UrquhartLisa DanielyA doctor and his wife move into an old house in an English village where he is to start a new job- over the next few days his wife begins to experience strange visions which makes her frightened that her life is in danger.
- DirectorGerry AndersonStarsMiriam KarlinGeorge MurcellDavid GrahamPC Don Ross suspects that a gang of lorry hijackers, operating from a transport café, is behind a series of vehicle thefts. When his suspicions are dismissed by his superiors, Ross decides to conduct his own undercover investigation, and sets out to collect vital evidence that could convict the gang..
- 1959–196557m6.6 (89)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert TronsonStarsMaxine AudleyLee MontagueAllan CuthbertsonA murderous jewelry heist attracts an ex-partner of the killer, a master criminal who's never been caught. His personal nemesis,a retired detective, joins Scotland Yard to crack the case, in turn recruiting the thief's estranged wife.
- DirectorAllan DavisStarsConrad PhillipsNatasha ParryDelphi LawrenceThe Police investigate a theft of emerald jewelry which had led to a murder.
- DirectorPeter DuffellStarsBernard LeeMoira RedmondJohn Van EyssenA company-owner arrives home from a night out with his wife, disturbs a burglar, and is shot. A detective starts investigating the case, to find out who is responsible.
- DirectorRobert TronsonStarsBernard ArchardElvi HalePaul StassinoA petty burglar sets a chain of events in motion when he steals some bullion that the owner hasn't declared to the authorities.
- DirectorGerard GlaisterStarsBernard LeeLyndon BrookFinlay CurrieThe police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
- DirectorRoyston MorleyStarsDerek FarrTony WrightRichard PearsonA wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.
- DirectorPeter DuffellStarsEdgar LustgartenGeoffrey KeenStanley MorganScotland Yard detectives investigate homicide and race-fixing at a dog track.
- DirectorPeter DuffellStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierHoward PaysScotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a woman whose dismembered body is found floating in a canal. The only clue to the woman's identity is an usual "Edelweiss" tattoo.
- DirectorAllan DavisStarsEdgar LustgartenHarry H. CorbettSimon LackScotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a pilot found in the wreckage of his own plane. Their investigations focus on a passenger who apparently survived the crash, but was injured when the plane came to grief.
- DirectorAllan DavisStarsEdgar LustgartenJohn WelshStanley MorganScotland Yard detectives investigate a series of burglaries where an expert safe-cracker has stolen a large amount of cash and other valuables.
- DirectorPeter DuffellStarsEdgar LustgartenRussell NapierMaurice GoodScotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a woman found in a wrecked building.
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsJohn BentleyPatrick AllenJacqueline EllisWhen a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.
- DirectorRobert TronsonStarsJack HedleyJacqueline EllisPatrick MageeTwo rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine inquires into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter-measures.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsMichael CraigFrançoise PrévostBillie WhitelawA gang plans to steal a factory's wages, but an armored van foils them. They rob anyway, killing the driver. His vengeful wife and encroaching police make the gang betray each other.
- DirectorPat JacksonStarsJeannie CarsonAlan DobieDelphi LawrenceAn ex-con goes looking for his late cellmate's hidden loot.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsPeter DyneleyJane HyltonNanette NewmanA young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsDerren NesbittKeith FaulknerCarol WhiteTwo young thugs rob a bookie leaving a dog-racing track with his winnings, but when they grab his case full of money they discover that he has chained it to his wrist. They dash around town trying to find a way to separate the case from the wrist of the bookie, who the pair has by now beaten so badly he appears to be dead. They finally come up with what they think is a foolproof plan, but soon something happens that they weren't quite expecting.
- DirectorJohn LemontStarsHerbert LomSean ConneryJohn GregsonA small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsYvonne MonlaurHarry H. CorbettRobert RiettyA gang of jewel thieves rob a house which has just become empty following the recent death of it's rich lady owner. The robbery is not a complete success and one of the gang hides the jewels in the house as he's about to be captured.