The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Directed byManning Haynes
Written byEdward Dryhurst
Based onnovel The Shakespeare Murders by Neil Gordon[1]
Produced byJohn Findlay
Starring
CinematographyStanley Grant
Edited byFergus McDonell
Production
company
Fox-British Pictures
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox Film Company (UK)
Release date
  • 5 September 1938 (1938-09-05) (UK)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Claydon Treasure Mystery is a 1938 film directed by H. Manning Haynes and starring John Stuart, Garry Marsh and Evelyn Ankers.[2] Murder at a large old manor house attracts the attentions of a mystery writer. It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox.[3]

Plot

Lady Caroline (Annie Esmond) invites engineer and part-time crime writer Peter Kerrigan (John Stuart) to Marsh Manor to solve a murder. Is the mysterious death of a librarian connected with the Claydon treasure, reputedly hidden on the estate a century earlier?

Cast

References

  1. Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 via Google Books.
  2. "The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938)". Archived from the original on March 22, 2017.
  3. Wood p.94

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.


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