Edgar Wallace

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral...

The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised...

The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more...

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the...

Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn...

Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.

When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi,...

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.

A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a...

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of...

Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.

A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the...

A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.

In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can...

A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped...

Whenever a criminal is killed in London, a black Jaguar is nearby, with a white cat always sitting in the passenger seat. Inspector Higgins and...

An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under...

While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden...

A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in...

On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a...

After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is...

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires...

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or...

There is good reason for Sir Douglas Wonderly to summon the family and a lawyer to his stately home. He wants to announce a change in his will. At...

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks,...

A mysterious serial killer is shocking the underworld. Scotland Yard is investigating the case. Clues lead the detectives to Blackwhite Castle.

The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy...

A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.

Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The...

A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.

A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears...

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a...

A man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.

An ex-con escapes from jail to clear himself about a robbery charge

An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.

A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.

In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious...

A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.

A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds...

An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The...

27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to...

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will...

The moving true story of wartime heroine Nurse Edith Cavell, recreated in the aftermath of her execution.

A woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.

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 Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.

A young woman is harassed by a man and seeks help from the police. The officer who visits her falls in love with her, but shortly after she is...

Although she is the mastermind of a gang of crooks, Kate Westhanger's talents are unknown to those outside her circle, thus enabling her to...

Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers

The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company....

Arson is the way out for a failing cosmetics company.

Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious...

A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be...

Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas

A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all...

A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.

A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy...

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer"...

Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress),...

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann...

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good...

A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.

After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a...

'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)

The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the murder of the Brittish Ambassador happened during a...

A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.

A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.

Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "Die vier Gerechten" are not of this opinion, however:...

Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad...

Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.

A Lord poses as a stableboy and rides a girl's horse when a crooked knight injures her jockey.

An ex-crook's horse wins despite his crooked rival and regains the formula for a malleable glass from a Russian.

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter...

A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think...

A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.

A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.

A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.

A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.

A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.

A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the...

A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.

A musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman.

An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....

The controlling wife of a pilot wants her husband to quit flying.

A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.

'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

The officers of the Flying Squad attempt to track down a drug-smuggling gang.

After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a...

A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to...

A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.

A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.

Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.

The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.

Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.

When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.

'Scotland Yard hunt for a dangerous criminal who has returned to Britain after many years away.' (BFI)

'Scotland Yard hunt for a dangerous criminal who has returned to Britain after many years away.' (BFI)

What the "spider-pit" sequence from the original King Kong (1933) probably looked like (the original sequence was cut out of the original movie...

The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.

A man released from prison falls in love with the blind wife of a cellmate, whom he promised, when inside, to visit. He poses as the real husband,...

Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann...

A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.

At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin. But Isla is reluctant to do so, and is...

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome...

Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator...

Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".

A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the...

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting...