Wallace edgar script by patrick kirwan walter s (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Large tall 4to. Thin card folder with a typesscript held by string at the to punched holes of the spine. 14 inches by 8. 24 recto pages, headed 'Dialogue Sheets' i.e. the dialogue of the film without scenes or directions. The script pages are clean and sound, the buff covers is somewhat used and chipped with the title written in ink on the front. The 1940 movie directed by Walter Summers was based on the book Edgar Wallace - it tells the story of Scotland Yard inspector Larry Holt (Hugh Williams) who is asked to investigate the case of five bodies that have been found in The Thames apparently drowned, during the last eight months, The investigation takes him to the Greenwich Insurance Co with whom many of the dead held policies. This is run by Feodor Orloff (Bela Lugosi), a former doctor who was driven out of his profession and deemed insane by many of his colleagues. Clues lead Holt to Dearborn's Home for the Destitute Blind where each of the policy holders have made charitable donations upon Orloff's request. There Holt comes to believe that each policy holder is being murdered for their money.…