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TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.

Great central performance by Paul Daneman

The plot kicks in with the unwelcome appearance of Wellington Brown, a drunken old associate of Trasmere, who threatens the old man unless he hands over substantial amounts of cash. Soon after Tab and Inspector Carver find Trasmere shot to death and locked inside his own vault - with the only key inside with him and the gun missing! And then there is the matter of how a set of jewels stolen from Ursula Ardfern also ended up in the strong room. The only clue is a pin found at the scene of the crime ... Ok mystery with a grand performance by Paul Daneman, a fairly involving story and an ingenious murder which reels you in to find out how the fiend did it. However, this entry is mildly distracting and lacked some excitement.

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Clue of the New Pin

This is one of the best entries in the series of Edgar Wallace films produced at Merton Park in the early 1960&#39;s. A great deal of its strength comes from the performance of Paul Daneman. It is a cliché to say it is more interesting for actors to play villains rather than heroes, but Daneman does a superb job of playing a villain who is essentially a weak and ineffectual man. Possibly his only success in life is figuring out a way to murder his rich uncle that appears impossible. Outwardly calm and sophisticated, Rex Lander is actually insecure and rather desperate. Slowly he cracks under the pressure of police investigation. Paul Daneman achieves all this through suggestion - a flick of the eyes, a private smile, a shrug of the shoulders. It&#39;s a fine piece of acting and makes the whole film worth watching.

That&#39;s probably one of the best Edgard Wallace Mystery episodes I have seen since a while. A real mystery yarn, about the scheme of the murder committed in a locked vault - strong room - from the outside with the corpse and the only key of this very room inside, on a table. But the mystery doesn&#39;t stay long, as far as we can watch the murderer committing another crime in the same way. The victim in first is a wealthy man, whom the nephew inherits of everything. There also a blackmailer in this exciting tale. The sequence where the assassin sets his crime up is wonderful. Unforgettable. I won&#39;t tell more about this little gem. Although, there is not really action in this little film. But we can live without it.

Two popular TV detectives of the era, Oreste Pinto of &#39;Spycatcher&#39; and Cluff of &#39;Cluff&#39; investigate a baffling case from the pen of Edgar Wallace already filmed in 1929. The revelation is for once succinctly explained visually (in total silence as in &#39;Rififi&#39;) rather than through the usual leaden verbal windup; and it&#39;s all satisfyingly resolved in under an hour.

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Clue of the New Pin

Clue of the new pin

Great central performance by Paul Daneman

So exciting !!

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