Man at the Carlton Tower

Man at the Carlton Tower
Directed byRobert Tronson
Written byPhilip Mackie
Based onThe Man at the Carlton
by Edgar Wallace
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBert Mason
Edited byBernard Gribble
Music byRon Goodwin
Production
company
Merton Park Studios
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated
Release date
  • July 1961 (1961-07)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Man at the Carlton Tower is a 1961 British second feature ('B')[1] crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Maxine Audley, Lee Montague and Allan Cuthbertson.[2] The screenplay was by Philip Mackie, based on the 1931 Edgar Wallace novel The Man at the Carlton.[3] It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from 1960 to 1965.

Plot

Tim Jordan is an ex-policeman helping the police look for Rhodesian criminal Lew Daney, who has murdered a policeman.

Cast

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "The latest of the Edgar Wallace mystery series, an amalgam of deductive duologues, gunplay and publicity for the new Carlton Tower Hotel, has about it the air of a television series manqué, competent enough of its undistinguished kind. Alfred Burke gives a novel style of smooth menace to his villain, but the ending where he loses both loot and life is confused and unconvincing."[4]

References

  1. ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 237. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ^ "Man at the Carlton Tower". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  3. ^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943.
  4. ^ "Man at the Carlton Tower". Monthly Film Bulletin. 28 (324): 130. 1961. ProQuest 1305829001 – via ProQuest.


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