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1963 British film by John Llewellyn Moxey

Ricochet

Directed by	John Llewellyn Moxey
Written by	Edgar Wallace (novel) Roger Marshall
Produced by	Jack Greenwood
Starring	Maxine Audley Richard Leech Alex Scott
Cinematography	James Wilson
Edited by	Derek Holding
Music by	Bernard Ebbinghouse
Production company	Merton Park Studios
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated
Release date	March 1963 (1963-03)
Running time	64 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Ricochet is a 1963 British crime film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Maxine Audley, Richard Leech and Alex Scott. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1922 novel The Angel of Terror.

Cast

Maxine Audley as Yvonne Phipps
Richard Leech as Alan Phipps
Alex Scott as John Brodie
Dudley Foster as Peter Dexter
Patrick Magee as Insp. Cummings
Frederick Piper as Siddall
June Murphy as Judy
Virginia Wetherell as Brenda
Alec Bregonzi as Max
Keith Smith as Porter
Peter Torquill as Sgt. Walters
Nancy Nevinson as Elsie Siddall
William Dysart as first skater
Barbara Roscoe as pretty girl skater
Anne Godley as wardress
Maris Tant as girl skater
Marian Horton as waitress

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Edgar Wallace's worldly, thinly ingenious story is here transposed to a contemporary suburban setting, rather effectively photographed under snow, and unimaginatively acted in the expressionless whisky-swilling convention of British second features. All the characters are pretty repulsive, and are allotted an appropriately nasty fate. Disbelief tends to dispel suspense, and the end is altogether too expected. The sound, though important to the plot, is rather over-recorded."

References

"Ricochet". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
"Ricochet (1963)". BFI. Archived from the original on 31 October 2019.
Goble p.486
"The Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Ricochet (1963)". Radio Times.
"Ricochet". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 30 (348): 120. 1 January 1963 – via ProQuest.

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

Ricochet at IMDb

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The City of the Dead (1960) Foxhole in Cairo (1960) Death Trap (1962) Ricochet (1963) Hold My Hand, Soldier (1963) Downfall (1964) Strangler's Web (1965) Circus of Fear (1966) The Solarnauts (1967) Dial M for Murder (1967) Laura (1968) A Hatful of Rain (1968) The House That Would Not Die (1970) Escape The Last Child (1971) A Taste of Evil (1971) The Death of Me Yet (1971) The Night Stalker (1972) The Bounty Man (1972) Home for the Holidays (1972) Genesis II (1973) The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974) Where Have All the People Gone? (1974) Foster and Laurie (1975) Conspiracy of Terror (1975) Nightmare in Badham County (1976) Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976) Panic in Echo Park (1977) Intimate Strangers (1977) The President's Mistress (1978) The Courage and the Passion (1978) Sanctuary of Fear (1979) The Power Within (1979) Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979) The Solitary Man (1979) The Children of An Lac (1980) The Mating Season (1980) No Place to Hide (1981) The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981) Killjoy (1981) Desire, the Vampire (1982) The Cradle Will Fall (1983) Through Naked Eyes (1983) When Dreams Come True (1985) Deadly Deception (1987) Sadie and Son (1987) Outback Bound (1988) Lady Mobster (1988)

Films directed by John Llewellyn Moxey

The City of the Dead (1960)
Foxhole in Cairo (1960)
Death Trap (1962)
Ricochet (1963)
Hold My Hand, Soldier (1963)
Downfall (1964)
Strangler's Web (1965)
Circus of Fear (1966)
The Solarnauts (1967)
Dial M for Murder (1967)
Laura (1968)
A Hatful of Rain (1968)
The House That Would Not Die (1970)
Escape
The Last Child (1971)
A Taste of Evil (1971)
The Death of Me Yet (1971)
The Night Stalker (1972)
The Bounty Man (1972)
Home for the Holidays (1972)
Genesis II (1973)
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974)
Where Have All the People Gone? (1974)
Foster and Laurie (1975)
Conspiracy of Terror (1975)
Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Panic in Echo Park (1977)
Intimate Strangers (1977)
The President's Mistress (1978)
The Courage and the Passion (1978)
Sanctuary of Fear (1979)
The Power Within (1979)
Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979)
The Solitary Man (1979)
The Children of An Lac (1980)
The Mating Season (1980)
No Place to Hide (1981)
The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981)
Killjoy (1981)
Desire, the Vampire (1982)
The Cradle Will Fall (1983)
Through Naked Eyes (1983)
When Dreams Come True (1985)
Deadly Deception (1987)
Sadie and Son (1987)
Outback Bound (1988)
Lady Mobster (1988)

Edgar Wallace

Novels

The Four Just Men (1905)
Angel Esquire (1908)
The Council of Justice (1908)
Captain Tatham (1909)
The Duke in the Suburbs (1909)
The Nine Bears (1910)
Private Selby (1912)
The Fourth Plague (1913)
Grey Timothy (1913)
The River of Stars (1913)
The Man Who Bought London (1915)
The Melody of Death (1915)
A Debt Discharged (1916)
The Tomb of Ts'in (1916)
The Just Men of Cordova (1917)
The Secret House (1917)
The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1918)
Down Under Donovan (1918)
The Man Who Knew (1918)
Those Folk of Bulboro (1918)
The Green Rust (1919)
Kate Plus Ten (1919)
The Daffodil Mystery (1920)
Jack O'Judgment (1920)
The Book of All Power (1921)
The Law of the Four Just Men (1921)
The Angel of Terror (1922)
The Crimson Circle (1922)
The Flying Fifty-Five (1922)
Mr. Justice Maxell (1922)
The Valley of Ghosts (1922)
The Clue of the New Pin (1923)
The Green Archer (1923)
The Missing Million (1923)
The Dark Eyes of London (1924)
Double Dan (1924)
The Face in the Night (1924)
Room 13 (1924)
The Sinister Man (1924)
The Three Oak Mystery (1924)
Blue Hand (1925)
The Fellowship of the Frog (1925)
The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder (1925)
The Strange Countess (1925)
The Three Just Men (1925)
The Avenger (1926)
Barbara on Her Own (1926)
The Black Abbot (1926)
The Northing Tramp (1926)
The Terrible People (1926)
The Yellow Snake (1926)
The Big Foot (1927)
Terror Keep (1927)
The Traitor's Gate (1927)
The Squeaker (1927)
The Forger (1927)
Again the Three (1928)
The Gunner (1928)
Four Square Jane (1929)
The Green Ribbon (1929)
The India-Rubber Men (1929)
The Calendar (1930)
The Clue of the Silver Key (1930)
The Lady of Ascot (1930)
The Man at the Carlton (1931)
The Guv'nor and Other Short Stories (1932)

Plays

An African Millionaire (1904)
M'Lady (1921)
Double Dan (1927)
The Terror (1927)
The Man Who Changed His Name (1928)
The Calendar (1929)
Persons Unknown (1929)
On the Spot (1930)
The Mouthpiece (1930)
Smoky Cell (1930)
The Old Man (1931)

Screenplays

Adaptations

J. G. Reeder	Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (1938) The Mind of Mr. Reeder (1939) The Missing People (1940) The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (1969, TV series)
The Four Just Men	The Four Just Men (1921) The Four Just Men (1939) The Four Just Men (1959, TV series)
Edgar Wallace Mysteries	Urge to Kill (1960) Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) The Malpas Mystery (1960) Marriage of Convenience (1960) The Clue of the New Pin (1961) Man at the Carlton Tower (1961) The Fourth Square (1961) Man Detained (1961) Attempt to Kill (1961) Clue of the Silver Key (1961) Never Back Losers (1961) Partners in Crime (1961) The Sinister Man (1961) Time to Remember (1962) Playback (1962) Solo for Sparrow (1962) Locker Sixty-Nine (1962) Incident at Midnight (1963) Return to Sender (1963) Ricochet (1963) Accidental Death (1963) Five to One (1963) The Verdict (1964) We Shall See (1964) Act of Murder (1964) Change Partners (1965)
Rialto Films	Der Frosch mit der Maske (1959) The Crimson Circle (1960) The Avenger (1960) The Terrible People (1960) The Green Archer (1961) The Dead Eyes of London (1961) The Devil's Daffodil (1961) The Forger of London (1961) The Strange Countess (1961) The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (1962) The Door with Seven Locks (1962) The Inn on the River (1962) The Curse of the Yellow Snake (1963) The Squeaker (1963) The Black Abbot (1963) The Indian Scarf (1963) Room 13 (1964) The Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964) Der Hexer (1964) The Traitor's Gate (1964) Neues vom Hexer (1965) The Sinister Monk (1965) The Hunchback of Soho (1966) The Trygon Factor (1966) Creature with the Blue Hand (1967) The Monk with the Whip (1967) The Hound of Blackwood Castle (1968) Im Banne des Unheimlichen (1968) The Gorilla of Soho (1968) Double Face (1969) The Man with the Glass Eye (1969) The Body in the Thames (1971)
Other	The Man Who Bought London (1916) The Green Terror (1919) Pallard the Punter (1919) Angel Esquire (1919) Wanted at Headquarters (1920) The River of Stars (1921) The Crimson Circle (1922) Down Under Donovan (1922) Melody of Death (1922) The Diamond Man (1924) The Flying Fifty-Five (1924) The Green Archer (1925 serial) The Great Unknown (1927) The Terror (1928) Mark of the Frog (1928 serial) Chick (1928) The Forger (1928) The Terrible People (1928 serial) The Ringer (1928) The Man Who Changed His Name (1928) The Flying Squad (1929) The Crimson Circle (1929) The Clue of the New Pin (1929) Red Aces (1930) The Squeaker (1930) The Yellow Mask (1930) The Ringer (1931) To Oblige a Lady (1931) The Calendar (1931) The Old Man (1931) The Squeaker (1931) The Flying Squad (1932) The Frightened Lady (1932) The Ringer (1932) The Menace (1932) White Face (1932) Giallo (1933) The Jewel (1933) Before Dawn (1933) The Double (1934) Mystery Liner (1934) The Green Pack (1934) The Feathered Serpent (1934) The Lad (1935) Sanders of the River (1935) Born to Gamble (1935) Chick (1936) Educated Evans (1936) The Crimson Circle (1936) Prison Breaker (1936) Strangers on Honeymoon (1936) The Frog (1937) The Squeaker (1937) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) Dangerous to Know (1938) Kate Plus Ten (1938) Thank Evans (1938) The Terror (1938) The Return of the Frog (1938) Flying Fifty-Five (1939) The Dark Eyes of London (1939) The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940) The Door with Seven Locks (1940) The Flying Squad (1940) The Green Archer (1940 serial) The Missing Million (1942) The Calendar (1948) The Ringer (1952) The Avenger (1960) Death Drums Along the River (1963) Coast of Skeletons (1964) Circus of Fear (1966) Five Golden Dragons (1967) The Devil Came from Akasava (1970) The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971) What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
Television	Educated Evans (1957–58) The Mixer (1992)

Family

Mary Jane Richards (mother)
Marriott Edgar (half-brother)
Bryan Edgar Wallace (son)

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