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      • The Sinister Man is a 1961 British crime drama film directed by Clive Donner and starring Patrick Allen and John Bentley. It was one of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries, British second-features, produced at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s.


      Plot


      The body of an Oxford professor is found floating in the river Thames. He had previously been studying an archeological artefact known as the Kytang Wafers, and this is now missing. Scotland Yard investigates. The wafers are bits of ancient text that could alter the relations between Red China and a Tibetan type nation called "Kytang". An autopsy reveals that the professor was murdered by a karate blow.


      Cast


      John Bentley as Superintendent Wills
      Patrick Allen as Dr. Nelson Pollard
      Gerald Anderson as Major Paul Amery
      Edward Atienza as Clerk
      Wilfrid Brambell as lock-keeper
      Yvonne Buckingham as Miss Russell
      Michael Deacon as Angus
      Jacqueline Ellis as Elsa Marlowe
      Keith Faulkner as Lock keeper's assistant
      William Gaunt as Mitch Hallam
      John Glyn-Jones as Dr. Maurice Tarn
      Peter Hager as warden
      John Horsley as pathologist
      Burt Kwouk as Captain Feng
      Arnold Lee as Soyok
      Robert Lee as Nam Lee
      Brian McDermott as Detective Sergeant Stillman
      Don McKillop as reporter


      Critical reception


      The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Hectic penny dreadful, without subtlety or surprise. Clive Donner's direction has intermittent punch, but the jaded format of these Edgar Wallace quickies is beginning to defeat any attempt at even the simplest kind of style."
      Leslie Halliwell said: "Very tolerable minor thriller in the Edgar Wallace series: short, sharp and snappy."
      MemorableTV.com described the film as "definitely one of the great Edgar Wallace entries with a fab cast that includes a pre-Steptoe Wilfred Brambell, Patrick Allen, William Gaunt and Burt Kwouk. John Bentley who took the lead as Superintendent Willis was a popular actor in the late fifties and early sixties but is all but forgotten these days."
      Classic Movie Ramblings wrote "The Sinister Man isn’t exactly a good movie but it has plenty of energy and a few intriguingly odd moments. I found it to be strangely appealing."


      Home media


      The film is included in Volume 2 of The Edgar Wallace Mystery series, released on region 2 DVD by Network, in 2012.


      References




      External links


      The Sinister Man at AllMovie
      The Sinister Man at IMDb
      The Sinister Man at the TCM Movie Database

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