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The Fourth Square

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The Fourth Square
Directed byAllan Davis
Written byJames Eastwood
Based onFour Square Jane
by Edgar Wallace
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGerald Moss
Edited byDerek Holding
Music byJames Stevens
Production
company
Merton Park Studios
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated
Release date
  • June 1961 (1961-06)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Fourth Square is a 1961 British second feature[1] crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry and Delphi Lawrence.[2] The screenplay was by James Eastwood, based on the 1929 Edgar Wallace novel Four Square Jane.[3] It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from 1960 to 1965.

Plot

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Cast

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Production

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Peter Mullins.

Reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Briskly implausible Edgar Wallace thriller, sufficiently suspenseful to hold the interest; acting and direction, too, are quite slick considering the unassuming level of this series."[4]

References

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  1. ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ^ "The Fourth Square". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  3. ^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 486.
  4. ^ "The Fourth Square". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 28 (324): 114. 1 January 1961. ProQuest 1305828245 – via ProQuest.
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