The Third Clue
1934 film
- Michael Barringer
- Lance Sieveking
- Frank Atkinson
- Molly Lamontn
- Basil Sydney
- Raymond Lovell
- Robert G. Martin
- James Wilson
Production
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Fox-British Pictures
Release date
- 15 April 1935 (1935-04-15)
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The Third Clue is a 1934 British crime film directed by Albert Parker and starring Basil Sydney, Molly Lamont and Raymond Lovell.[1] The film was based on Neil Gordon's novel The Shakespeare Murders, which also inspired The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938).[2] It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox.[3]
Synopsis
The screenplay concerns two criminals who try to recover loot hidden in an isolated manor house.[4]
Cast
- Basil Sydney as Reinhardt Conway
- Molly Lamont as Rosemary Clayton
- Robert Cochran as Peter Kerrigan
- Alfred Sangster as Rupert Clayton
- C. M. Hallard as Gabriel Wells
- Raymond Lovell as Robinson, the butler
- Adela Mavis as Zeta
- Frank Atkinson as Lefty
- Ernest Sefton as Newman
- Ian Fleming as Mark Clayton
- Bruce Lester as Derek Clayton
- Mabel Terry-Lewis as Mrs. Fuller
References
- ^ "The Third Clue (1934)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
- ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
- ^ Chibnall p.281
- ^ "The Third Clue (1934) - Albert Parker - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
Bibliography
- Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- The Third Clue at IMDb
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Films directed by Albert Parker
- Her Excellency, the Governor (1917)
- The Food Gamblers (1917)
- The Man Hater (1917)
- The Haunted House (1917)
- For Valour (1917)
- The Other Woman (1918)
- From Two to Six (1918)
- Annexing Bill (1918)
- Shifting Sands (1918)
- Waifs (1918)
- The Secret Code (1918)
- Arizona (1918)
- The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919)
- Eyes of Youth (1919)
- The Branded Woman (1920)
- Love's Redemption (1921)
- Sherlock Holmes (1922)
- Second Youth (1924)
- The Rejected Woman (1924)
- The Black Pirate (1926)
- The Love of Sunya (1927)
- After Dark (1932)
- The Right to Live (1933)
- Rolling in Money (1934)
- The Third Clue (1934)
- The Riverside Murder (1935)
- The White Lilac (1935)
- Late Extra (1935)
- Troubled Waters (1936)
- Blind Man's Bluff (1936)
- Strange Experiment (1937)
- There Was a Young Man (1937)
- The Five Pound Man (1937)
- Murder in the Family (1938)
- Second Thoughts (1938)
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