Writing
James Eastwood
Acting credits
Behind the camera
Two crime drama tales of plans for a murder gone wrong. In the first story, a man plots to murder his daughter's blackmailer and then himself. In the second story, a doctor hypnotizes a man who's been having an affair with his wife to kill her, or hopefully she will kill him. Originally released to television as individual episodes of "The Vise".
Final Column
1955
6.0Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
Wrong Number
1959
NRThe Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.
The Fourth Square
1961
5.2Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
Devil Girl from Mars
1954
7.0A 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 female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.
The Man Who Was Nobody
1960
5.0Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.
The Desperate Man
1959
6.2An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.
The Counterfeit Plan
1957
6.5Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London around the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist who has fled the USSR. An attempt on Dushenko's life is made with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.
Little Red Monkey
1955
10.0A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
Tale of Three Women
1954
First episode of the television series "The Vise" (1954)
One Just Man
1954
5.6A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.
Urge to Kill
1960
7.0A British short film about Scotland Yard investigating a group of bank robbers who take normal sedan cars and transform them into race cars.
The Dover Road Mystery
1960
10.0Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man.
Inside Information
1957
A story of three young artists who believe artists only reach fame when they die and so come up with a strange plan.
Calling Scotland Yard: The Man Who Stayed Alive
1954
7.0A compilation of 3 stories, (i)"The Missing Passenger" (ii) "Falstaff's Fur Coat" (iii) "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series "Calling Scotland Yard" and later shown in the US on NBC's "Adventure Theatre" in 1956, hosted by Paul Douglas.
Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder
1953
7.0A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears
The Silent Witness
1954
10.0A murderer attempts to escape justice by shipping his victims body to Tokyo in a trunk.
Passenger to Tokyo
1954
A Scotland Yard ballistics expert is called into identify a murderer through a scientific analysis of the bullet that killed a man.
The Mysterious Bullet
1955

