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Clue of the Twisted Candle (Original title)
Dates: 1960 (Copyright), 07 June 1960 (Production), 1960 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Allan Davis

Synopsis: A junior partner in a blackmailing racket attempts to frame his partner in an elaborate plot.

Genre:
Crime

Subject:
Blackmail
Releases
Date: 1960Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 61 mins Length: 5508 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (21)
©: Merton Park Studios Ltd., Produced by: Jack Greenwood, Associate Producer: Jim O'Connolly, Production Manager: Harry Kratz, Assistant Director: Jimmy Komisarjevsky, Continuity: Beryl Booth, Screenplay by: Philip Mackie, Based on the novel by: Edgar Wallace, Director of Photography: Brian Rhodes, Camera Operator: Alf Hicks, Film Editor: Bernard Gribble, Art Director: Wilf Arnold, Wardrobe: Freda Gibson, Make-up: Michael Morris, Title Music by: Michael Carr, Music Composed and Conducted by: Francis Chagrin, Sound Recordist: Sidney Rider, Sound Recordist: Ronald Abbott, Sound Editor: Derek Holding, Studio: Merton Park
Cast (17)
Bernard Lee (Superintendent Meredith), David Knight (Lexman/Griswold), Colette Wilde (Grace), Francis De Wolff (Ramon Karadis), Richard Caldicot (Fisher), Stanley Morgan (Sergeant Anson), Richard Vernon (Viney), Gladys Henson (landlady), Christine Shaw (Linda Buckman), A.J. Brown (commissioner of police), Edmond Bennett (manservant), Simon Lack (Jock), Anthony Baird (Sergeant Butterfield), Alfred Maron (Finch), Harry Locke (Amis), Roy Purcell (Brennan), Kenneth Fortescue (secretary (C.I.D.))