Murder at Site 3

Murder at Site 3
Directed byFrancis Searle
Written byPaddy Manning O'Brine
Based onCrime Is My Business
by W Howard Baker (as Peter Saxon)
Produced byCharles Leeds, Francis Searle
StarringGeoffrey Toone, Barbara Shelley
CinematographyBert Mason
Music byDon Banks
Production
company
Francis Searle Productions
Release date
  • 1958 (1958)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Murder at Site 3 (also known as Murder at Site Three) is a 1958 British film directed by Francis Searle and starring Barbara Shelley, Geoffrey Toone and John Warwick.[1][2] featuring the character of Sexton Blake.[1] It was written by Paddy Manning O'Brine, based on the 1958 novel Crime is My Business by W Howard Baker (as Peter Saxon), and produced at Bray Studios by Francis Searle's own production company.

Plot

Sexton Blake tracks down a gang who have stolen secrets from a rocket site.

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Blake, his secretary and his assistant Tinker are attractively characterised in a modest thriller suffering less from its many improbabilities than a meandering, over-deliberate and for the most part tedious narrative.:"[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Murder at Site 3". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Murder at Site Three (1959)". ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
  3. ^ "Murder at Site 3". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 26 (300): 124. 1 January 1959 – via ProQuest.


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