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The Sinister Man (Original title)
Dates: 1961 (Copyright), 22 November 1962 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Clive Donner

Synopsis: Edgar Wallace thriller about two ruthless murders involving the theft of some mysterious oriental tablets.

Genre:
Thriller

Series title:

Credits (22)
©: Merton Park Studios, Produced by: Jack Greenwood, Associate Producer: Jim O'Connolly, Production Manager: Joe Levy, Assistant Director: Albert Pearl, Continuity: Marjorie Owens, Casting Director: Ronald Curtis, Screenplay by: Robert Stewart, Director of Photography: Bert Mason, Camera Operator: Herbert Smith, Film Editor: Derek Holding, Art Director: Peter Mullins, Wardrobe: Eileen Welch, Make-up: Aldo Manganaro, Hairdresser: Hilda Fox, Music Composed and Conducted by: Charles Blackwell, Title Music: Michael Carr, Sound Recordist: Sidney Rider, Sound Recordist: Ronald Abbott, Sound Editor: Michael Shah Dayan, Sound System: Westrex Recording System
Cast (30)
John Bentley (Superintendent Wills), Patrick Allen (Dr Nelson Pollard), Jacqueline Ellis (Elisa Marlowe), John Glyn-Jones (Dr Maurice Tarn), Brian Mcdermott (Det. Sgt. Stillman), Gerald Andersen (Major Paul Amery), Wilfrid Brambell (lock-keeper), Edward Atienza (clerk), Eric Young (Johnny Choto), Robert Lee (Mr Nam Lee), Yvonne Buckingham (Miss Russell), William Gaunt (Mitch Hallam), Michael Deacon (Angus), Arnold Lee (Soyoki), John Horsley (pathologist), Lesley Nunnerly (Vera Martin), Malcolm Russell (Joe Martin), Yvonne Shima (Tamaya), Keith Faulkner (lock-keeper's assistant), Myo Toon (1st Chinese man), Sano Wong (2nd Chinese man), Burt Kwouk (Captain Feng), Jane Murdock (honeymoon wife), Tim Parkes (honeymoon husband), Howard Pays (police sergeant), Peter Hager (warden), Don McKillop (reporter), Bob Russell (uniformed sergeant), Steve Reagan (police constable), Ping Pong San (instructor in gym)