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The Ringer by Edgar Wallace7/6/2023 The whole cast is very solid but Lom and Hartnell are the standouts. William Hartnell is great fun as the likeable cockney thief Sam. Meister is smooth, charming, clever, calculating and sinister - the sort of rôle Lom always relished. Guy Hamilton may have been a novice director but he was a very talented novice director and both he and experienced screenwriter Val Valentine know what they’re doing.Īnd of course the film has Herbert Lom, always a very big plus. His books were just so perfectly suited to film adaptation. It’s difficult to make a bad movie based on an Edgar Wallace thriller. It’s not very difficult to guess the Ringer’s identity but that just increases the suspense - how on earth is he going to kill Meister when Meister isn’t leaving his house and the house is crawling with coppers? We know that the Ringer is not the sort of criminal who commits a crime unless he is certain he can get away with it, which in this case seems like an impossibility.
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