Writing

Kenneth R. Hayles

Known for

Writing

Credits

11 titles

Known for

Barbados Quest poster
5.1

Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or her hands on the stamp, which puts a crimp in Duke's efforts to romance every beautiful woman he meets.

Barbados Quest

1955

Final Appointment poster
6.1

A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...

Final Appointment

1954

Find the Lady poster
5.0

During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.

Find the Lady

1956

The Hide-Out poster
4.4

An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.

The Hide-Out

1956

Passport to Treason poster
6.0

After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim. Passport to Treason was put together by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, the same team who’d later collaborate on the UK TV series The Saint. Rod Cameron stars as an American private eye, stationed in London. For the sake of a murdered friend, the detective takes over the dead man’s case, which turns out to have international ramifications. The villains are members of a phony pacifistic society, all of whom harbor plans for taking over the world.

Passport to Treason

1956

Secret Venture poster
6.5

An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.

Secret Venture

1955

Behind the camera

Barbados Quest poster
5.1

Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or her hands on the stamp, which puts a crimp in Duke's efforts to romance every beautiful woman he meets.

Barbados Quest

1955

Final Appointment poster
6.1

A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...

Final Appointment

1954

Find the Lady poster
5.0

During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.

Find the Lady

1956

The Hide-Out poster
4.4

An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.

The Hide-Out

1956

Passport to Treason poster
6.0

After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim. Passport to Treason was put together by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, the same team who’d later collaborate on the UK TV series The Saint. Rod Cameron stars as an American private eye, stationed in London. For the sake of a murdered friend, the detective takes over the dead man’s case, which turns out to have international ramifications. The villains are members of a phony pacifistic society, all of whom harbor plans for taking over the world.

Passport to Treason

1956

Secret Venture poster
6.5

An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.

Secret Venture

1955

Blind Spot poster
5.9

US Army Officer Dan Adams, blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight, Adams goes after the real thieves in an effort to clear his name. In order to trap the wily criminals, Adams pretends that he's still bereft of his vision.

Blind Spot

1958

Companions in Crime poster
9.0

Two stories, in the Scotland Yard Series to show that crime does not pay. This was a compilation of two episodes from the television series Stryker of the Yard (1954) featuring Clifford Evans

Companions in Crime

1954

No Smoking poster
7.8

A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.

No Smoking

1955

Stolen Assignment poster
5.8

Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?

Stolen Assignment

1955

Suspended Alibi poster
4.4

A married man having an affair visits a friend to establish an alibi for a rendezvous with his girlfriend. His friend is murdered the same night and he is accused of the crime.

Suspended Alibi

1957